> Some character sets, such as utf-8, need the language
> specified in order to choose the proper glyphs.
You could say instead that it needs the selection of the
proper font to look right to readers.
> I suggest that we enhance the current description of the IPP Model
> "document-format" attribute to indicate the capability of using the
> charset attribute of media types. I'm still looking for a language
> attribute for use with media types, but can't find it. RFC 2184
> didn't seem to have it.
MIME uses "content-language" to describe the language of a
particular piece of media, independent of the media type.
Alternatively, you could send "text/html" and use the LANG tags
within it.
Larry
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