IETF policy on encodings and languages

[John Cowan]

On Wed, Dec 30, 2020 at 3:25 AM <nothien at uber.space> wrote:

Sorry, I wasn't clear.  When I said "Latin section", I meant "section
> meant for Latin users".  The site you're talking about isn't meant for
> Latin-speaking users, so it doesn't have a Latin interface.  That's
> perfectly fine.
>

Ah, okay.

> One example doesn't make the rule.  I would argue that Project Gutenberg
> _should_ have interfaces in other languages, because it is offering
> (some) content that is almost exclusively going to be consumed by people
> speaking (possibly only) these other languages.


Up to a point, certainly.  The tail end of languages probably don't need
interfaces.

> We're talking about different things.  I'm not talking about link lines
> and query strings.  My point of contention is the use of HTML-style
> (<key>=<value>)* formatting for query strings.
>

Suppose you have written an essay in French on the novels of Jules Verne in
text/gemini format, and you want to link to a collection of the novels
themselves.  You can then insert this link line:

=> gemini://
gemguten.example.com/advsearch.gmi?lang=fr&author=Jules&author=Verne Les
oeuvres de Jules Verne en français

The user who selects this link will receive a text/gemini document,
something like this:

=> gemini://gemguten.example.com/etext/5082 Verne, Jules, 1828-1905. Le
chateâu des Carpathe. [fr]
=> gemini://gemguten.example.com/etext/8174 Verne, Jules, 1828-1905.
Kéraban-Le-Têtu, Volume I. [fr]
=> gemini://gemguten.example.com/etext/17832 Verne, Jules, 1828-1905. Une
ville flottante. [fr]
...

Since this is not an _interactive_ search, the Gemini conventions about
status 1x and the query string don't apply.

But you
> should at least open up the possibility of having other interfaces, even
> if you don't write them yourself.  Non-English-readers will thank you
> for it.
>

Absolutely.


John Cowan          http://vrici.lojban.org/~cowan        cowan at ccil.org
If I have not seen as far as other giants, it’s because I have been
standing on my head.  --Trond Engen
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