Re: [weirds] Proposal for internationalization question

["Ning Kong" <[e-mail]>]

+1
It seems like that you have the similar idea as the 7.3 section of
draft-sheng-weirds-icann-rws-dnrd-01.

> I'm fine with this approach, but I think that if the server has any
information
> about the language, script, or whatnot, it SHOULD use language tags as
> defined by RFC 5646.  This nicely gets us both "language" and "script"
(and
> actually, a bunch of other stuff too, if someone is foolish enough to use
that).
> 
> These language tags provide a way for a client to do useful things with
the
> output.  If there is not such tag, then if a client wants to do something
useful,
> it has to guess, and that's a bad idea.
> 
> It seems to me that we might want both the ability to place one tag on the
> entire response, and also a tag on various parts.  This way, if a
repository
> only ever has one language and script it can just say that once in a
response;
> but at the same time a repository that has different kinds of stuff in the
same
> response can identify each part accordingly.