> I'd like to have a comment on these stupid questions. Not stupid at all, ask away.
> Scenario 1 > If the weblog is written in English, but the content mostly local > stuff in Finland, what should the correct language tag setting be? RSS is limited in it's spec to stating ONE language per feed. This is usually set to the language of the audience most likely to be reading your feed. So if you make a french feed intended for french-reading viewers it would be appropriate to mark it as 'fr'. The same goes for any other language. > Scenario 2 > If the weblog is bilingual, some posts are in English, some in > Finnish and the content is "universal stuff", what should the > language setting then be? See above response. Yes, this is imprecise. It does mean that something looking solely at the channel language element might not be able to 'see' the fact that other languages are present. C'est la vie. However, the items themselves can indicate what language their using and would thus make it possible for tools to reach a deeper understanding of what's present. Unfortunately most tools never make use of it. At this point there is all sorts of potential for improving the state of language and other metadata markup in feeds. It's a classic chicken-meets-egg problem. No tools means no data means no tools. All this said, language has nothing to do with location. Geographic data has no place in language tags. Use of en-US, de-CH and the like are dialect indicators NOT geographic. -Bill Kearney ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> $9.95 domain names from Yahoo!. Register anything. http://us.click.yahoo.com/J8kdrA/y20IAA/yQLSAA/IRislB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> To find more info about Syndicated XML newsfeeds visit http://www.syndic8.com Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/syndic8/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
