- From: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
- Date: Tue, 06 Oct 2009 10:20:34 +0200
- To: "Martin J. Dürst" <duerst@it.aoyama.ac.jp>
- CC: HTTP Working Group <ietf-http-wg@w3.org>
Hi Martin, thanks for the confirmation. Martin J. Dürst wrote: > As the secondary charset expert reviewer, I have never seen a charset > with a "'" in it. There is note at > http://www.iana.org/assignments/character-sets, and they are not allowed > in the "more restrictive" production in Section 2.3 of RFC 2978. They > are also not allowed in XML, which is even more restrictive. I guess > that as a reviewer, I'd simply tell an applicant to change the name. As a matter of fact, I'm not sure why I made it "token" in the first place. > As the co-chair of the LTRU WG, I know quite for sure that language tags > don't contain "'". Please check yourself at > http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5646 or one of it's predecessors. Right, and the ABNF was already referring there; so again no problem. Checking: is there a simpler ABNF somewhere to extract "potential" language tags from other text content? It appears that they are restricted to: *( ALPHA / DIGIT / "-" ) right? > So I see absolutely no problem to tightening up the grammar. > ... Best regards, Julian
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