On Wed, Dec 30, 2020 at 3:25 AM <nothien at uber.space> wrote: Sorry, I wasn't clear. When I said "Latin section", I meant "section > meant for Latin users". The site you're talking about isn't meant for > Latin-speaking users, so it doesn't have a Latin interface. That's > perfectly fine. > Ah, okay. > One example doesn't make the rule. I would argue that Project Gutenberg > _should_ have interfaces in other languages, because it is offering > (some) content that is almost exclusively going to be consumed by people > speaking (possibly only) these other languages. Up to a point, certainly. The tail end of languages probably don't need interfaces. > We're talking about different things. I'm not talking about link lines > and query strings. My point of contention is the use of HTML-style > (<key>=<value>)* formatting for query strings. > Suppose you have written an essay in French on the novels of Jules Verne in text/gemini format, and you want to link to a collection of the novels themselves. You can then insert this link line: => gemini:// gemguten.example.com/advsearch.gmi?lang=fr&author=Jules&author=Verne Les oeuvres de Jules Verne en fran?ais The user who selects this link will receive a text/gemini document, something like this: => gemini://gemguten.example.com/etext/5082 Verne, Jules, 1828-1905. Le chate?u des Carpathe. [fr] => gemini://gemguten.example.com/etext/8174 Verne, Jules, 1828-1905. K?raban-Le-T?tu, Volume I. [fr] => gemini://gemguten.example.com/etext/17832 Verne, Jules, 1828-1905. Une ville flottante. [fr] ... Since this is not an _interactive_ search, the Gemini conventions about status 1x and the query string don't apply. But you > should at least open up the possibility of having other interfaces, even > if you don't write them yourself. Non-English-readers will thank you > for it. > Absolutely. John Cowan http://vrici.lojban.org/~cowan cowan at ccil.org If I have not seen as far as other giants, it?s because I have been standing on my head. --Trond Engen -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <https://lists.orbitalfox.eu/archives/gemini/attachments/20201230/4c0c 71fa/attachment-0001.htm>
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