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Re: Suggest promoting Content-Language to Proposed Standard

1994-05-12 01:02:18
Hello,
noting that:

1) The document draft-alvestrand-language-tag-00.txt has met (as far
   as I have seen) no opposition, and very little comment

My concern is that future ISO 639 may use the same extension syntax
as your draft to represent differenet sub-languages.

Then, language tag such as "en-us" may have different meaning between
IANA registry and ISO registry.

The simplest way to avoid it is, quite ironically, to go back to your
original proposal to use a character "_", which is unsafe to ISO's
eye, instead of "-".

I see a need for the document draft-alvestrand-language-tag-00.txt to be
published as a Proposed Standard of the IETF.
Is there any opposition to this?

But if you are so sure that future 639 won't use two letter codes,
it's OK.

                                                        Masataka Ohta