- From: Koen Holtman <koen@win.tue.nl>
- Date: Sat, 6 Apr 1996 01:09:15 +0200 (MET DST)
- To: greenwd@openmarket.com
- Cc: koen@win.tue.nl, http-wg%cuckoo.hpl.hp.com@hplb.hpl.hp.com
Tim Greenwood: > >Koen Holtman wrote > >> I believe your proposal for simplification is based on a misreading of >> the syntax definition of language tags. The current rule needs to be >> this complicated because there can be more than one subtag. >> >> The matching rule currently defined will allow the range "i-sami" to >> match the tag "i-sami-da". Your proposed simplification will not >> allow this. > >The proposal was intended not as a simplification, but as a >clarification. Your comment is correct, my proposal would have >excluded a match that should be allowed. The text in 10.4 should >still be rewritten to use the syntax defined in 3.10. The current >text uses the term 'a prefix' which is not defined. Ah, so _that_ is the problem. I assumed that 'prefix' was standard computing terminology, but apparantly it is not. (Prefix means "initial part of a string".) I'll see if I can find an alternative wording. >It could be >interpreted to allow a match of a language range to any but the last >subtag of a language-tag. Thus > >Accept-Language:cy (Welsh) > >could match el-cy-x (Greek in Cyprus with some other subtag). > >------------------------------------- >Tim Greenwood Open Market Inc >617 679 0320 greenwd@openmarket.com Koen.
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