On Feb 10, 6:24pm, Koen Holtman wrote:
> Misha Wolf:
> >What I want to raise is a very particular problem: Two of the browsers that
> >handle Hebrew (maybe this should read "The two browsers that handle
> >Hebrew"), recognise the old language code ("iw") but not the new one ("he").
>
> Why do these browsers need a language code at all? Can't they just rely on
> the charset value?
Only if there is (and has ever been) only one language which uses the
Hebrew script. I suspect this is not the case.
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