[whatwg] Language tags

Ian Hickson ian at hixie.ch
Mon Aug 10 16:04:08 PDT 2009


On Thu, 13 Apr 2006, Henri Sivonen wrote:
>
> Web Apps 1.0 references RFC 3066. However, IANA seems to behave as if a 
> successor for the RFC had already been approved. The successor draft is 
> http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-ltru-registry-14.txt
> 
> Is it safe to expect Web Apps 1.0 to change its normative reference on 
> language tags to the successor of RFC 3066?
> 
> (XML 1.0 has "or its successor" language regarding RFC 3066, so that 
> won't be a problem.)

It will reference BCP47.

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