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solderpunk solderpunk at SDF.ORG
Mon May 18 22:42:15 BST 2020
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On Mon, May 18, 2020 at 05:03:41PM -0400, Sean Conner wrote:
What's a client to do if 'lang=' isn't there? Assume English? Assume
nothing?
Specifying English, or any other language, as a default value doesn'tseem right to me.
Realistically, the majority of clients will not do anything with thisinformation. Those which *do* use it in some way will know best whatthe most sensible behaviour is in the absence of explicit information.So I propose that client behaviour in the absence of a specifiedlanguage is up to the client.
The search engine case seems the trickiest to me (compared to, say,screen reading). Statistical language recognition is a thing, but doingit on every document in Geminispace is likely to be burdensome...
Cheers,Solderpunk