On Feb 2, 2007, at 11:13 AM, Andy Mabbett wrote:
I may be rare, but it does happen. "Mein Kampf" in English is still
titled "Mein Kampf"
So if the evidence confirms my suspicion that it's really rare to
need
to mark up the language of (for example) the book separately from the
language of the words in the book's title,
<snip>
(And hence, drop the 'language' field from the hCite straw format?)
I still don't think that that are anywhere near enough examples,
especially of non-English-language sources, to be confident that it's
not widely used.
I'm going to suggest that a language field--for works where the title
incorrectly implies the resources language--sits outside of the 80/20
for
a citation microformat for a number of reasons:
1. According to our current evidence it's very rare
2. In some cases where it does occur (online resources) common HTML
constructs (@hreflang) fulfill the need completely.
3. In many remaining contexts, language differences are unimportant
for
the user. E.g.: a scholar chasing the citations of a critique of
French literature written in English will likely already know
French.
--
Ryan
http://RyanCannon.com
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