- From: Bert Bos <bert@w3.org>
- Date: Fri, 29 Feb 2008 19:21:52 +0100
- To: www-style@w3.org
On Friday 29 February 2008 11:38, Anne van Kesteren wrote: > On Fri, 29 Feb 2008 07:27:09 +0100, fantasai > > <fantasai.lists@inkedblade.net> wrote: > > - RESOLVED: Proposal to normalize language strings to 3066 before > > matching against :lang() accepted. > > I'd like to hear a use case for this. I don't think it makes sense. > The languages Selectors is working with are all using BCP47 (3066 is > pretty old now) so making the definition quirkier might think people > stuff like <div lang=dut> should be matched by :lang(nl-NL) and > things like that... I agree it is rather theoretical and there is no urgent need to improve the spec, but it doesn't hurt either. The spec currently says[1] that the C in ':lang(C)' may be an identifier that is not a language, but it doesn't actually say when an identifier is not a language. Referring to RFC 3066 (now RFC 4646) is what everybody does anyway and it avoids that somebody in the future accidentally creates an incompatible definition for language identifiers. [1] http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/WD-css3-selectors-20051215/#lang-pseudo Bert -- Bert Bos ( W 3 C ) http://www.w3.org/ http://www.w3.org/people/bos W3C/ERCIM bert@w3.org 2004 Rt des Lucioles / BP 93 +33 (0)4 92 38 76 92 06902 Sophia Antipolis Cedex, France
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