LANGUAGE SUBTAG MODIFICATION REQUEST - zxx

[Randy Presuhn]

Hi -

> From: "Doug Ewell" <doug at ewellic.org>
> To: <ietf-languages at iana.org>
> Sent: Sunday, April 27, 2008 12:30 PM
> Subject: Re: LANGUAGE SUBTAG MODIFICATION REQUEST - zxx
...
> The nature of the content of source code is the programming language in 
> which it is written.  If you feel this needs to be captured in a BCP 47 
> language tag, some possibilities are:
> 
> "x-cobol"
> "x-proglang-cobol"
> "zxx-x-cobol"
> "zxx-x-proglang-cobol"
> "zxx-p-cobol"
...

However, do keep in mind RFC 4646 section 2:

   Language tags are used to help identify languages, whether spoken,
   written, signed, or otherwise signaled, for the purpose of
   communication.  This includes constructed and artificial languages,
   but excludes languages not intended primarily for human
   communication, such as programming languages.

Randy