- From: Addison Phillips via GitHub <sysbot+gh@w3.org>
- Date: Mon, 01 Apr 2024 15:43:33 +0000
- To: public-i18n-archive@w3.org
@jonquet I think you might be confused by the distinction between what 639 does and how language tags are composed. The Library of Congress is a reference for ISO-639-1. This is not the only part of ISO 639: it's only the 2-letter codes. The RA is the Summer Institute of Language (SIL), who maintain ISO-639-3 (parts -1 and -2 are derived from this, note that I'm simplifying a lot). However... Language Tags are defined by [IETF BCP47](https://rfc-editor.org/bcp/bcp47.html). These tags include multiple standards, including ISO 639 for languages, ISO 4217 for scripts, ISO 3166 for country/regions. These codes (called "subtags") can be composed to form complete language such as `pt-BR`, `zh-Hans-CN`, etc. Our WG maintains an introductory article [here](https://www.w3.org/International/articles/language-tags/index.en.html). There is a registry of valid subtags maintained by IANA here[https://www.iana.org/assignments/language-subtag-registry/language-subtag-registry}. This registry tracks all of the parts of ISO639 as well as the other standards that are used in language tags. However, it is one large "cookie-jar" format file with all of the subtags in it. This issue, where we're discussing this, reflects a known gap for RDF: there is no URL reference for composed language tags. This WG investigated what would be required to create one in the 2020/2021. It would be possible to do this at IETF/IANA, but no one wrote the Internet-Draft to carry the work forward. cf. [action](https://www.w3.org/International/track/actions/1083) [result](https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Member/member-i18n-core/2021Sep/0030.html) -- GitHub Notification of comment by aphillips Please view or discuss this issue at https://github.com/w3c/i18n-discuss/issues/13#issuecomment-2030021838 using your GitHub account -- Sent via github-notify-ml as configured in https://github.com/w3c/github-notify-ml-config
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