[Bug 14709] user agent lang tag handling is insufficiently specified

http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=14709

Ian 'Hixie' Hickson <ian@hixie.ch> changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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             Status|NEW                         |RESOLVED
                 CC|                            |ian@hixie.ch
         Resolution|                            |WONTFIX

--- Comment #30 from Ian 'Hixie' Hickson <ian@hixie.ch> 2011-11-11 00:19:09 UTC ---
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Status: Rejected
Change Description: no spec change
Rationale: 

How OpenType behaves is up to OpenType.

Within HTML, the intent is that so long as you use only conforming values, the
behaviour is clear, and if you use non-conforming values, HTML UAs will not
treat them as value values and non-HTML contexts built on top of HTML, e.g.
CSS, will operate as defined by those contexts. This is because I do not think
we want to require that browsers validate every language tag before trying to
match CSS selectors, e.g.

I do not think the sentences quoted in comment 11 contradict each other; one
applies to HTML UAs, and the other applies to the input passed to non-HTML
contexts.

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Received on Friday, 11 November 2011 00:19:21 UTC