SPOOFED: Cognitive aspects of navigation in gemini space

[solderpunk]

On Sun, May 17, 2020 at 09:02:51PM -0400, Sean Conner wrote:
 
>   It could be included with the MIME type as:
> 
> 	text/gemini; lang=en_US
> 
> or maybe as:
> 
> 	text/gemini; language=se_NO

I have been meaning to propose exactly this.

The FAQ says that the "first class" application of Gemini is human
consumption of predominantly written material, and specifying a language
is actually really important metadata for this application.  Knowing the
text encoding is not adequate:

Screenreaders (like Rhapsode) need to know a language to be able to
pronounce text vaguely correctly.

Text in some languages should be rendered right to left and/or top to
bottom.

The same word can mean very different things in different languages and
search engines should not return irrelevant results on this basis.

Someone is bound to ask: "Oh, does this mean text/gemini;
content-size=1234 is okay, too?".  No!  We are talking about MIME types
here.  This is *category* information.  Details specific to one
particular document are inappropriate.

Cheers,
Solderpunk