BCP 47, RFC 3066 on Tags for Identification of Languages

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        BCP 47       
        RFC 3066

        Title:	    Tags for the Identification of Languages
        Author(s):  H. Alvestrand
        Status:     Best Current Practice
	Date:       January 2001
        Mailbox:    Harald@Alvestrand.no
        Pages:      13
        Characters: 26522
        Obsoletes   1766
        SeeAlso:    BCP 47

        I-D Tag:    draft-alvestrand-lang-tag-v2-05.txt

        URL:        ftp://ftp.rfc-editor.org/in-notes/rfc3066.txt


This document describes a language tag for use in cases where it is
desired to indicate the language used in an information object, how to
register values for use in this language tag, and a construct for
matching such language tags.

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