From: Erland Sommarskog (sommar-usefor@algonet.se)
Date: Sun Nov 03 2002 - 09:22:42 CST
greg andruk <gja@meowing.net> writes:
>Erland Sommarskog wrote:
>>Bruce Lilly made an issue of language tags in RFC2047, as if they were
>>in regular use today. I had never heard of them before. And when I tested
>>in a local test group, none of Xnews, Tin 1.5 or Gnus 5.9.0 appeared to
>>handle them. (The conclusion for the latter two are based on comments
>>to my test posting.)
>
>The language tagging requirement was explained to you long before Bruce
>mentioned it. See <http://www.landfield.com/usefor/1998/Feb/0022.html>
Explained? All that Chris Newman says in that message is "See RFC 2277",
That is not an explanation. That is a way of saying "I don't care if
you know what I'm talking about".
(No, I don't go around search the web, just because someone says "see
RFC xxxx" rather just giving a simple explanation what it is all about.)
>>And for the body? Unless you use Unicode with language indicators,
>>you are left to using one language in the body, or at least per
>>paragraph if you use multipart/mixed.
>
>Remember that there is also multipart/related, and that there are more media
>types than text/plain.
Remember? Do you think that I actually know MIME?
In any case, if you want to mark language in your message, and you
change languages within the same paragraph, and you are using some
plain-text format - which the norm in Usenet - how do you handle this
MIME, and not using embedded language tags in the charset?
-- Erland Sommarskog, Stockholm, sommar@algonet.se