[i18n review comment] Locale references to BCP47 and CLDR #189

[raised by aphillips]


Best Practice 3 includes as an example the use of `dct:language` to 
indicate locale and refers loosely to the need to indicate the language 
and locale of data values. The standards that embody locale and language 
identification on the Web (and on the Internet more generally) are IETF 
BCP 47 [RFC5646/RFC4647](https://tools.ietf.org/html/bcp47) and 
[CLDR](http://cldr.unicode.org).

The I18N WG recognizes that these standards do not have a linked data 
representation currently, but the current representations given as 
examples in this document are incomplete and have a variety of 
limitations or problems. This is recognized, for example, by the fact 
that Dublin Core's language element was defined to reference RFC3066, 
which was the current BCP47 when that standard was published. However, 
BCP 47 has been updated since and the current formulation, while fully 
compatible with RFC3066, is the preferred reference.

The WG feels that BP3 should include a reference or recommendation to 
consistently use BCP47 as the standard for language and locale 
identification and, informatively, to CLDR as the source for both 
representing specific localized formats and as a reference for specific 
locale data values.

Please note that this is in addition to the need to recommend 
locale-neutral 
representations[https://github.com/w3c/i18n-activity/issues/187] instead).

Received on Friday, 22 July 2016 12:36:41 UTC