Re: Web browsers and the new language code for Hebrew

From: Francois Yergeau (yergeau@alis.com)
Date: Mon Feb 10 1997 - 16:02:04 EST

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À 18:24 10-02-97 +0100, Koen Holtman a écrit :
>Why do these browsers need a language code at all? Can't they just rely on
>the charset value?

Not when the charset is UTF-8, which is the case for
<http://www.reuters.com/unicode/iuc10/x-utf8.html>. But even there, the
language code is not strictly necessary for display purposes only.

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