Re: draft-phillips-langtags-08, process, specifications, "stability", and extensions
2005-01-06 05:43:07
Bruce Lilly scripsit:
Finding country codes is straightforward: any non-initial subtag of
two letters (not appearing to the right of "x-" or "-x-") is a country
code. This is true in RFC 1766, RFC 3066, and the current draft.
I believe that:
1. it is not strictly true of the registered tag sgn-CH-de, except
by the coincidence that "de" describes a language as well as a
country; unless Switzerland has united with Germany when I
wasn't paying attention.
Fair enough: "de" in this case is clearly not a country code.
2. there is no way that an RFC 3066 parser could have made such an
assumption as there is no specification regarding interpretation
of 2-letter subtags in the 3rd or subsequent positions. In
particular, what you state as a rule appears nowhere in 1766 or
3066.
I stated it (again) as the truth, not a rule; but I concede that it is
not the truth.
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