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owner-schoolforge-discuss@schoolforge.net wrote:

> Subject: Re: [school-discuss] EduML - case issue.
> From: Dominique Broeglin <broeglin@free.fr>
> To: "schoolforge-discuss@schoolforge.net"
>
> On Mon, 2002-01-28 at 17:25, Gunnar Stefansson wrote:
> > Hi again
> >
> > > Also, what about character set declarations? We are probably all going to
> > > use ISO-Latin (8859-1) in N. America/W Europe.
> >
> > Well, if we're doing more that English then surely we need to have the
> > concept included such that any charset is allowed?
> >
>
>         Charset definitions are already included in XML. Parser must reconize
> UTF-8 but most parsers reconize other charsets like ISO-8859-1 or
> russians and japaneses (don't rememember the codes).
>
> > But if we include charset defs, then we also need to define the
> > language a course is in, no?
> >
>
>         This is handled by the attribute "xml:lang" in the XML specification.
> If you add this attribute to any element in a XML document the
> application can assume that the content of that element is provided in
> the given language. But maybe for whole courses, RDF (Resource
> description framework) would be a better choice because it could handle
> a lot more meta data).
>
>         Dom
>
> > Boy, if a student can say "I need a first course in continuity of
> > functions and I can handle Turkish, Norwegian or Hindi", this will
> > be really something...
> >
> > This would make a nice change from my personal sloppiness: If a
> > student gets the wrong language in my tutorials I've been assuming
> > they would notice :-)
> >
> > G

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On Mon, 2002-01-28 at 17:25, Gunnar Stefansson wrote:
> Hi again
> 
> > Also, what about character set declarations? We are probably all going to
> > use ISO-Latin (8859-1) in N. America/W Europe.
> 
> Well, if we're doing more that English then surely we need to have the 
> concept included such that any charset is allowed?
> 

	Charset definitions are already included in XML. Parser must reconize
UTF-8 but most parsers reconize other charsets like ISO-8859-1 or
russians and japaneses (don't rememember the codes).

> But if we include charset defs, then we also need to define the
> language a course is in, no?
> 

	This is handled by the attribute "xml:lang" in the XML specification.
If you add this attribute to any element in a XML document the
application can assume that the content of that element is provided in
the given language. But maybe for whole courses, RDF (Resource
description framework) would be a better choice because it could handle
a lot more meta data).

	Dom

> Boy, if a student can say "I need a first course in continuity of
> functions and I can handle Turkish, Norwegian or Hindi", this will
> be really something...
> 
> This would make a nice change from my personal sloppiness: If a
> student gets the wrong language in my tutorials I've been assuming
> they would notice :-)
> 
> G