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Proposed minor spec changes, for comment.

Sean Conner sean at conman.org

Mon May 18 22:03:41 BST 2020

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It was thus said that the Great solderpunk once stated:

ISSUE 3:

Problem: There's no way to specify the (human) language a text/gemini document

is written in.

Proposal: Define a new parameter for the text/gemini MIME type

(alongside the previously defined `charset`) to specify language.

Following the example set by HTML, it seems natural to call the

parameter `lang` and to allow values as per RFC1766, e.g.:

text/gemini; charset=utf-8; lang=en

text/gemini; charset=utf-8; lang=en-US

text/gemini; charset=utf-8; lang=en-GB

text/gemini; charset=utf-8; lang=es

text/gemini; charset=utf-8; lang=fr

What's a client to do if 'lang=' isn't there? Assume English? Assumenothing?

-spc