Re: rough sketch of a potential solution

At 08:29 03/11/17 -0500, Keith Moore wrote:

>On Monday, November 17, 2003, at 03:08  AM, Martin Duerst wrote:

>>As I tried to explain in another mail, I'm not really clear on this.
>>The sender should not send an address that the receiver doesn't know
>>how to read.
>
>The problem is that there may be multiple recipients and the sender may 
>not know which recipients can read which languages, or even if this is 
>known, the sender may not know alternative addresses for some of the 
>recipients.  Consider a reply to a message that was originally sent to a 
>list of recipients, some of whom the sender knows and some of whom the 
>sender doesn't know.  Either the original message or the reply could be in 
>multiple languages (say with multipart/alternative)

Do you have information on how often multiple languages (with multipart/
alternative or plaintext, but nevertheless parallel texts) are used?
My guess is that they are very rare. Preparing messages in multiple
languages is everything but cheap.

Regards,    Martin.