Thanks for the answers. I'll have to prepare my Wordpress somehow to be bilingual, or trilangual ;), as Finland is a bilingual country, Finnish + Swedish = our official languages.
rgds Stedi --- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], "Bill Kearney" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 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/
