- From: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
- Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2008 13:33:08 +0200
- To: HTTP Working Group <ietf-http-wg@w3.org>, LTRU Working Group <ltru@ietf.org>
OK,
thanks for all the feedback so far. I (hopefully) have addressed many of
the issues; here's the new proposed text for 3.5:
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3.5. Language Tags
A language tag, as defined in [RFC4646], identifies a natural
language spoken, written, or otherwise conveyed by human beings for
communication of information to other human beings. Computer
languages are explicitly excluded. HTTP uses language tags within
the Accept-Language and Content-Language fields.
In summary, a language tag is composed of one or more parts: A
primary language tag and a possibly empty series of subtags:
language-tag = <Language-Tag, defined in [RFC4646], Section 2.1>
White space is not allowed within the tag and all tags are case-
insensitive. The name space of language subtags is administered by
the IANA (see
<http://www.iana.org/assignments/language-subtag-registry>).
Example tags include:
en, en-US, es-419, az-Arab, x-pig-latin, man-Nkoo-GN
See RFC 4646 for further information.
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(see also <http://www.tools.ietf.org/wg/httpbis/trac/ticket/13>).
BR, Julian
Received on Tuesday, 15 April 2008 11:33:56 UTC