IETF policy on encodings and languages

[John Cowan]

On Sun, Dec 27, 2020 at 6:04 PM Petite Abeille <petite.abeille at gmail.com>
wrote:

Could we prefix META with a language tag and call it a day?
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> 10 EN Indica or Sativa? 🌿⚗️


I think that's the wrong way around.  The server doesn't normally have to
tell the client what language it's using (though there are obvious bad
cases like "Chat?")  The problem is that the client can't tell the server
what language the user would like to be prompted in.

Now that I think about it, though, that *can* be encoded in the URL readily
enough, though not in a universal way If a text/gemini file is in Greek,
the textual part of a link line will also normally be Greek, in which case
the URL should have "gr" in it someplace (assuming the server can handle
it).
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