- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Mon, 10 Aug 2009 23:12:20 +0000 (UTC)
- To: Doug Jones <doug_b_jones@mac.com>, Anne van Kesteren <annevk@opera.com>, Richard Ishida <ishida@w3.org>
- Cc: HTML WG Public List <public-html@w3.org>
On Sat, 26 Jan 2008, Doug Jones wrote: > > The W3C Architecture Domain page about language tags in HTML and XML > states RFC4646 should be used for lang tags. Their use of the word tag > appears to refer to the language abbreviation (en, fr). These would be > the lang and xml:lang attributes in HTML. This superseded RFC3066. > RFC4646 also references RFC4047. > > The HTML5 spec at 3.4.3.states to use RFC3066 for the lang or xml:lang > attributes. This should be updated. On Sat, 26 Jan 2008, Anne van Kesteren wrote: > > Maybe pointing to BCP47 is better so we don't have to address this each > time they issue a new RFC. On Tue, 29 Jan 2008, Richard Ishida wrote: > > Yes, please point to BCP 47. It is intended to be an unchanging > reference, unlike the RFC numbers. (Note that a successor to RFC 4646 > is likely to appear soon - the RFC will have a completely different > number, but the spec can still be referred to as BCP 47.) Done. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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