ABSTRACT
Most people are unaware that every time they log on the web or use a computer program, watch a TV program, or use a cell phone, they invoke some sort of language code. Sometimes the codes become visible even to the inexperienced user if a colleague who mostly works in another language sends a word-processing file that starts generating spelling errors because it is checking English text against a dictionary for a different language. Or we find we cannot follow a link that happens to use Russian or Chinese characters in a Western European computing environment, an issue that may disappear with the further implementation of the World Wide Web’s (W3C) Internationalization Tagset (W3C, 2013).
