LANGUAGE TAG REGISTRATION FORM (last updated 2001-12-19) Name of requester : Harald T. Alvestrand E-mail address of requester: Harald.Alvestrand&maxware.no Tag to be registered : i-default English name of language : Default Language Native name of language (transcribed into ASCII): Default Language Reference to published description of the language (book or article): RFC 2277 Any other relevant information: For information, here is the section of RFC 2277 that defines Default Language. It is probably a Good Thing to keep this with the registration in the IANA registry. 4.5. Default Language When human-readable text must be presented in a context where the sender has no knowledge of the recipient's language preferences (such as login failures or E-mailed warnings, or prior to language negotiation), text SHOULD be presented in Default Language. Default Language is assigned the tag "i-default" according to the procedures of RFC 1766. It is not a specific language, but rather identifies the condition where the language preferences of the user cannot be established. Messages in Default Language MUST be understandable by an English- speaking person, since English is the language which, worldwide, the greatest number of people will be able to get adequate help in interpreting when working with computers. Note that negotiating English is NOT the same as Default Language; Default Language is an emergency measure in otherwise unmanageable situations. In many cases, using only English text is reasonable; in some cases, the English text may be augumented by text in other languages. ======== (created 1998-03-10) []