[selectors] Clarification on :lang() with asterisks

Hi all,

Dhi Aurrahman is extending WebKit's :lang() selector to support the 
asterisk matching added in 
http://dev.w3.org/csswg/selectors4/#the-lang-pseudo.

He has raised an issue that needs clarification:

It is possible to use asterisks in the argument of :lang() simply by 
escaping them in the identifier. For example, :lang(de-\*-DE) defines a 
valid identifier.

Such input is correct in RFC 4647 (http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc4647.txt), 
a single asterisk subtag is a wildcard in the range-matching algorithm 
(3.3.2 -> 3.A.).

So far so good, except for Example 31 in the CSS Draft, there is the 
sentence: "Note that asterisks are not allowed anywhere else in 
:lang()'s language range syntax: they only have meaning, and are 
therefore only allowed, at the beginning.".

I don't see any restriction to the language range syntax of RFC 4647 
anywhere else in the spec. I am not sure what the sentence means in the 
example, maybe the raw input instead of the language range?

Basically:
-Can escaped asterisks be used for wildcard matching described by RFC 
4647? (IMHO, they should)
-Can we get that behavior clarified in the text?

Benjamin