> -----Original Message-----
> From: SRU (Search and Retrieve Via URL) Implementors
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> On Behalf Of Christophe Dupriez
> 
> It will receive a SRU query for "Mozart" and it will answer with music
scores of
> Mozart (or about Mozart or referring to Mozart).
> Those music scores bibliographic records are full of codes (composer
code,
> publisher code, keyword codes, type of record codes, etc.) that must
be
> expanded in the user language.
> Who does it? Does the server application receive in the SRU query an
indication
> of the user language?

I'm afraid the answer is: "It depends".

The smarter the client, the better the decisions it will make and the
less the SRU server should get in its way.  But, for dumb clients, the
more you can do, the better for the user.

So, I'd probably do both.  I'd return the codes so the smart client can
use them and I'd take advantage of any language hints I had to return
locale sensitive data.

Ralph