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From: iacovou@cs.umn.edu (Danny Iacovou)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: New USENET header: Language
Message-ID: <1990Dec29.205638.12457@cs.umn.edu>
Date: 29 Dec 90 20:56:38 GMT
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In <_2B+P*A@b-tech.uucp> zeeff@b-tech.ann-arbor.mi.us (Jon Zeeff) writes:

>>articles often include text from one article in English, with a reply
>>in French. Having a Lanuage header would restrict each article to one
>>specific language, and this would break down in the face of bilingual
>>postings. 

>How about allowing "Language: English/French" in the header?  

   
    Taking this idea one step further, we can use lang. reference 
    headers. We can have something like this:

        Lang References: <English> <French> <French> <English>

    I don't think that the current "References" header should be
    tampered with in order to accomadate langages.


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