- From: Tim Bray <tbray@textuality.com>
- Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2000 11:44:49 -0700
- To: Elliotte Rusty Harold <elharo@metalab.unc.edu>, "Unicode List" <unicode@unicode.org>
- Cc: xml-dev@xml.org, xml-editor@w3.org
At 01:24 PM 4/25/00 -0400, Elliotte Rusty Harold wrote: >Has anybody noticed that XML 1.0 requires 2-letter and forbids >three-letter language codes? From section 2.1.2 of the XML 1.0 spec: ... >Production 35 enforces this constraint. >I think XML needs another erratum here to fix this. Yes... there was a good reason, but I don't recall what it was; we looked at the 3-letter options carefully. I seem to recall a finding that the ISO process on finalizing the 3-letter version seemed to be seriously hung, but this is back in 1997... -Tim
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