Just throwing this out there without having put much thought into it yet.

It would be good to be able to support the scheme attribute to specify encoding schemes.
The problem I suppose is that if multiple schemes could be used how do you know what has been used.

Maybe each tag definition could have a list of available schemes that can be selected via a select box. Or it can just be left blank.
The definitation could also possibly have a default scheme defined, although that might be less often used.

So for example a date tag could have the allowed schemes of 'ISO 639-2' & 'RFC 1766'.

So then users who care to can select the scheme for their tag and it gets added to the <meta> tag.

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damienmckenna
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Title: Support encoding schemes » Add new meta tag: Scheme (encoding schemes)

Do you have any links to specifications for this?

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rooby commented

The scheme is not a meta tag of it's own, it is an attribute for meta tags to describe the format of the tag content.
See http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/struct/global.html#h-7.4.4.2
And some more info just below this anchor http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/struct/global.html#profiles

There are some examples using scheme at http://dublincore.org/documents/2000/07/16/usageguide/qualified-html.shtml

Some more info at:
http://dublincore.org/documents/dcmi-terms/#H4
http://dublincore.org/documents/dcmi-terms/#H5

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rooby commented
Title: Add new meta tag: Scheme (encoding schemes) » Support encoding schemes (scheme attribute)

Oops, forgot to change title back.

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xtfer commented

Would be good to see some movement on this, as DC metadata is largely useless without it.

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xtfer commented
Status: Active » Closed (duplicate)

I've submitted a patch which handles 'scheme', 'lang' and 'dir'.

Marking this as a dupe...

#1970362: Support all attributes of the meta element