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Nathan Galt mailinglists at ngalt.com
Mon Sep 14 20:34:03 BST 2020
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(Making a new post since this conversation finished up before I signed up for the mailing list…)
Previously:
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https://lists.orbitalfox.eu/archives/gemini/2020/001107.html
The two concerete motivations for adding this were:
1. Screenreaders need to know this information to know which settings to
use for their text-to-speech engine: the same letters correspond to
different sounds in different languages.
2. Search engines may want to to offer their users the ability to ask
for results only in a particular set of languages.
Can anybody think of additional likey use cases besides these?
Automatic-hyphenation algorithms need to know what language text is in in order to know where it will, and won’t, be a good idea to stick hyphens.