Erratum in new Registry

Addison Phillips addison at yahoo-inc.com
Fri Mar 9 16:10:22 CET 2007


RFC 4646 doesn't specify an order because the order is not intended to 
be fixed. However, it is good to keep them in the same order for naive 
implementers.

Addison

Doug Ewell wrote:
> Through an error which was entirely my fault, the new entry in the 
> Registry for Valencian has the "Added" and "Prefix" lines reversed.
> 
> We added:
> 
> Type: variant
> Subtag: valencia
> Description: Valencian
> Prefix: ca
> Added: 2007-03-06
> Comments: Variety spoken in the "Comunidad Valenciana" region of Spain,
>  where it is co-official with Spanish.
> 
> Should be:
> 
> Type: variant
> Subtag: valencia
> Description: Valencian
> Added: 2007-03-06
> Prefix: ca
> Comments: Variety spoken in the "Comunidad Valenciana" region of Spain,
>  where it is co-official with Spanish.
> 
> I looked through RFC 4646 and couldn't find anything explicit about the 
> relative order of these two fields, and it shouldn't break any parsers. 
> But for consistency with other records, the Prefix field is supposed to 
> go after the Added field.
> 
> I ask the Reviewer to ask IANA to make this simple change.  Copying and 
> pasting the lines following "Should be:" would do the job.
> 
> -- 
> Doug Ewell  *  Fullerton, California, USA  *  RFC 4645  *  UTN #14
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Addison Phillips
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Chair -- W3C Internationalization Core WG

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