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RE: [Ltru] Re: Remove extlang from ABNF?

Shawn Steele <Shawn.Steele@microsoft.com> Tue, 04 December 2007 20:45 UTC

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From: Shawn Steele <Shawn.Steele@microsoft.com>
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Date: Tue, 04 Dec 2007 12:45:28 -0800
Subject: RE: [Ltru] Re: Remove extlang from ABNF?
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> zh-cmn and a bunch of other zh-* are grandfathered.  What search did you use?

http://www.w3.org/International/articles/language-tags for one example, I assume you're using search.live.com? ;-)  I assume someone'll update Wikipedia? "Extended Language Tags", "zh-cmn", "RFC 4646 extlang", etc.

I'm not trying to assign a "correctness" value, I'm just mentioning that lazy developers are likely to find sources such as this and work from there without reading 4646 or 4646bis.  It appears that some people took the reserved language part of RFC4646 and turned that into a best practice.

So if moving away from extlang, there should be an effort to reeducate these people :)

- Shawn



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