[whatwg] Language codes: RFC 3066 versus RFC 4646

[Ian Hickson]

On Fri, 3 Apr 2009, Alex Bishop wrote:
>
> In several places in HTML5 (specifically, sections 3.3.3.3, 4.2.5.3 and 
> 5.11.1), the specification states that certain attribute values must be 
> valid RFC 3066 language codes.
> 
> However, RFC 3066 was replaced by RFC 4646 (and RFC 4647) in September 
> 2006.
> 
> Is there a reason that HTML5 refers to the older standard or is this 
> just an oversight?

On Fri, 3 Apr 2009, Masataka Yakura wrote:
>
> I think the current plan is to point to BCP 47, since RFC 4646 is "soon" 
> to be replaced by its successor [1].
> 
> [1] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html/2008Jan/0298.html

On Fri, 3 Apr 2009, Michael(tm) Smith wrote:
> 
> And the general plan is to at some point(s) (e.g., before taking the W3C 
> version to Last call) do a thorough review and update of all the 
> references/citations to whatever the current versions are that they 
> should point to at that time. It's maybe not all that useful to try to 
> keep them up to date piecemeal along the way.

I'm now going through the references. I've updated the RFC3066 references 
to point to BCP47.

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