ISSUE-189: reference obs-language-tag instead of defining your own

reference obs-language-tag instead of defining your own

State:

CLOSED

Product:

turtle

Raised by:

Addison Phillips

Opened on:

2012-09-07

Description:

http://www.w3.org/2012/08/22-i18n-minutes.html#item05

Section 6.5 (Grammar) defines LANGTAG far more permissively than BCP 47 does--even in its obsolete forms, to wit:

[144s] LANGTAG ::= '@' [a-zA-Z]+ ('-' [a-zA-Z0-9]+)*

It would be better to define this at least in terms of BCP 47's "obs-language-tag" production:

obs-language-tag = primary-subtag *( "-" subtag )
primary-subtag = 1*8ALPHA
subtag = 1*8(ALPHA / DIGIT)

Although the I18N WG would prefer if you just referenced the production in Section 2.1 of BCP 47. See: http://tools.ietf.org/html/bcp47#section-2.1

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Related emails:

1. Review of Track Issues for Best Practices (Part VII) (from addison@lab126.com on 2015-05-28)
2. Re: Final ping on turtle i18n issues (from guus.schreiber@vu.nl on 2013-01-14)
3. RE: Final ping on turtle i18n issues (from addison@lab126.com on 2012-12-10)
4. RE: Final ping on turtle i18n issues (from eric@w3.org on 2012-12-10)
5. RE: Final ping on turtle i18n issues (from addison@lab126.com on 2012-12-10)
6. I18N-ISSUE-189: reference obs-language-tag instead of defining your own [TURTLE] (from sysbot+tracker@w3.org on 2012-09-07)

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