- From: Martin J. Duerst <duerst@w3.org>
- Date: Fri, 03 Dec 1999 05:44:56 +0900
- To: Harald Tveit Alvestrand <Harald@Alvestrand.no>
- Cc: Chris Lilley <chris@w3.org>, www-international@w3.org
Forwarded by the list maintainer. At 06:50 1999/12/01 -0500, Harald Tveit Alvestrand wrote: > At 10:40 01.12.99 +0100, Chris Lilley wrote: > > > >You can use es-latin right now if you want. The definition is that if > >the first token is two letters, it is an ISO language code; if the > >second token is two letters, it is an ISO country code. Other lengths, > >and thirs and subsequent tokens, do not have a centralised registry. You > >can say en-GB-cheshire-southern-workingclass-1890s if you wish. > > sorry - RFC 1766 specifies a centralized registry with IANA for *all* tags > and subtags where the first tag is not "x". So if you want one, please > register it. > > > >I suggest not using three letter codes for the second token, since my > >understandingis thatthe ISO country codes are being/might be revised to > >use three-letter tokens; and thus a replacement for RFC1766 might > >mandate special meaning for three letter token in the second position. > > Language tags (the first tag) have come out in a 3-letter version. > I see no reason to suspect that there will be a separate 3-letter code for > languages. > (Actually there is one already, but all the countries have a 2-letter, a > 3-letter and a numeric code - all assigned by ISO 3166. So you'd only use > the 3-letter code if you wanted something "more pronounceable"). > > Harald > > -- > Harald Tveit Alvestrand, EDB Maxware, Norway > Harald.Alvestrand@edb.maxware.no > > > #-#-# Martin J. Du"rst, World Wide Web Consortium #-#-# mailto:duerst@w3.org http://www.w3.org
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