- From: Richard Ishida <ishida@w3.org>
- Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2006 17:46:24 -0000
- To: "'Ian Hickson'" <ian@hixie.ch>
- Cc: <www-style@w3.org>, <public-i18n-core@w3.org>
> From: Ian Hickson [mailto:ian@hixie.ch] > Sent: 31 January 2006 17:27 ... > > On Sat, 21 Jan 2006 ishida@w3.org wrote: > > > > This section should statethat the matching of language values is > > case-insensitive, eg. en-gb is the same as en-GB. > > The working group discussed this issue. > > It's case-sensitive for XML attributes (since XML defines > everything to be case-sensitive), and case-insensitive for > HTML attributes that are defined as being case-insensitive. > That is, it depends on the document language. > > Please let us know if this does not resolve your comment. > > -- > Ian Hickson U+1047E Actually XML isn't case sensitive in this point. The XML spec says "The values of the attribute are language identifiers as defined by [IETF RFC 3066], Tags for the Identification of Languages, or its successor; in addition, the empty string MAY be specified." http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/REC-xml-20040204/#sec-lang-tag RFC3066 specifies that case must not matter. " All tags are to be treated as case insensitive; there exist conventions for capitalization of some of them, but these should not be taken to carry meaning." http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3066.txt RI ============ Richard Ishida Internationalization Lead W3C (World Wide Web Consortium) http://www.w3.org/People/Ishida/ http://www.w3.org/International/ http://people.w3.org/rishida/blog/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/ishida/
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