Language tags in Luke's "A proposed scheme for parsing preformatted alt text"

[Nathan Galt]

Prior reading:

gemini://gemini.marmaladefoo.com/blog/7-Sep-2020_Parsing_preformatted_alt_text.gmi                                                  

I haven’t made up my mind on, well, most things in this proposal. I’m still chewing on them, and I may never have an opinion on them, much less a well-thought-out opinion.

That said, I think that if we’re writing language codes in text, we ought to allow for full IETF language tags instead of just two-letter codes, although roughly nobody’ll bother writing any more than “lang:en-GB”. I might do `lang:en-Shaw` once or twice, but that’s about it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IETF_language_tag

That way, if people want to express more than just a language, there’s a well-trodden path for them to do so. Likewise, if, say, a screen reader wants to pick the right accent for a particular bit of text, it can.

Nathan