(Making a new post since this conversation finished up before I signed up for the mailing list?) Previously: => gemini://gemi.dev/gemini-mailing-list/messages/001107.gmi > 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.
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