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- Date: Sun, 22 Mar 2015 00:15:13 +0000
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https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=28263
Bug ID: 28263
Summary: [webvtt] "valid" language tags [I18N-ISSUE-429]
Product: TextTracks CG
Version: unspecified
Hardware: PC
OS: All
Status: NEW
Severity: normal
Priority: P2
Component: WebVTT
Assignee: dave.null@w3.org
Reporter: silviapfeiffer1@gmail.com
QA Contact: public-texttracks@w3.org
CC: philipj@opera.com, silviapfeiffer1@gmail.com
Feedback by Addison Phillips from W3C I18N group:
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-tt/2015Mar/0062.html
I18N comment: https://www.w3.org/International/track/issues/429
http://www.w3.org/TR/webvtt1/#dfn-webvtt-cue-language-span
The description of the cue language span feature reads in part:
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A WebVTT cue span start tag "lang" that requires an annotation; the annotation
represents the language of the following component, and must be a valid BCP 47
language tag. [BCP47]
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The term 'valid' has specific meaning in BCP 47. It requires that all of the
subtags in the tag be registered in the IANA registry (or that the tag itself
be one of the grandfathered tags). Is this the intended meaning/requirement
here? An alternative would be to require "well-formed" language tags
(consistent with the BCP 47 grammar but not necessarily consisting of valid
subtags).
There is nothing wrong with requiring validity, please note, if that's your
intention. Only that this is a higher standard than may be supposed by the spec
author.
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