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Language header already defined

1993-03-05 00:31:06
Note:
we already have a header Language: defined in an IETF standards-track
document - RFC 1327.

It defines it as (partial BNF):

       ..... "Language" ":" language
        language        = 2*ALPHA [ language-description ]
        language-description = printable-string


and is indeed referring to ISO 639.

NOTE: As I learned to my pain, linguists think that ISO 639 define
approximately 10 % of the world's languages, and a lot of them wrongly.
An ISO committee is drafting a new version. Don't expect results soon -
it seems that linguists are as quarrelsome as networkers! - so we can
indeed regard 639 as a "stable spec".

                      Harald Tveit Alvestrand


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