On Mon, Jun 11, 2001 at 07:54:53PM +0200, Florian Weimer wrote: > IMHO, a better mechanism are Unicode 3.1 language tags, see: > > http://www.unicode.org/unicode/reports/tr27/#tag
Which says: The characters in this block provide a mechanism for language tagging in Unicode plain text. However, the use of these characters is strongly discouraged. The characters in this block are reserved for use with special protocols. They are not to be used in the absence of such protocols, or with any protocols that provide alternate means for language tagging, such as HTML or XML. Which implies that this mechanism isn't useful for representing different languages in the same document. That, instead, it's logically equivalent to a MIME declaration of the document's language. Maybe, in the future, the Unicode Consortium wants to change the standard so that this mechanism can be used to represent multiple languages within the same document. But that's not the current standard. -- Raul
