RFC3066bis: looking ahead

Mark Davis mark.davis at jtcsv.com
Tue Jan 20 18:25:51 CET 2004


The following are possible:

lang-script-region
lang-script
lang-region

Currently, we can tell script from region by length. But if you toss in two tags
for language, where the second can be of length 2 or 3, then you can't tell

lang-sublang
from
lang-region

Mark
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Peter Constable" <petercon at microsoft.com>
To: <ietf-languages at alvestrand.no>
Sent: Tue, 2004 Jan 20 08:34
Subject: RE: RFC3066bis: looking ahead


> From: Mark Davis [mailto:mark.davis at jtcsv.com]

> No, it would be an issue. 3066bis is designed so that one can parse
the tags and
> decide without lookup which are language, which are script, and which
are region
> codes. Adding possibly dual language codes would break this. Have to
think about
> it a bit.

The language subtags from ISO 639 could only be 2 or 3 characters long,
and nothing else could have that length (assuming your proposed syntax).
Thus, it shouldn't be at all hard to parse.



Peter

Peter Constable
Globalization Infrastructure and Font Technologies
Microsoft Windows Division

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