From: Jon Callas <jon(_at_)pgp(_dot_)com>
Subject: Re: language tag
Date: Thu, 03 Sep 1998 11:37:22 -0700
Kazu, does the wording on the "Charset:" header help you?
Yes. The 07 draft looks very reasonable to me. Thank you.
Putting a tag in
there to specify language is something simple that the implementor can do
to solve this problem. The only other place where there is text is in the
user id packets, and those are defined to have essentially no format. By
convention they are RFC822 names, but they can be X.500 names or anything
else. It's reasonable to qualify a name with a RFC1766 language tag there
if you don't want to use romaji.
As Paul answered, language tag is not necessary to be defined.
It is necessary only for UTF-8 (namely Unicode) to distinguish
CKJ. And self-taging mechanism for UTF-8 is on the table.
If a character set other than UTF-8 is used, the Charset: header is
enough.
Again, thank you for your revisions.
--Kazu