[webaccessibile] FC 3066 is dead. Long live RFC 4646 (and 4647).

[Roberto Scano - IWA/HWG]

-----Original Message-----
Richard Ishida
Important news. Although existing language tag values do not need to change, there are some new possibilities available.

   The [110]Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) has
   published two new specifications for language tags. [111]RFC 4646:
   Tags for the Identification of Languages replaces RFC 3066 and, with
   the new [112]IANA Language Subtag Registry, extends language tag
   syntax to address a number of long-standing issues. The separate
   [113]RFC 4647: Matching of Language Tags addresses how to match the
   new tags. 

The W3C I18n GEO Working Group provides a gentle introduction to the new syntax at http://www.w3.org/International/articles/language-tags/
	

    [110] http://www.ietf.org/
    [111] http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc4646.txt
    [112] http://www.iana.org/assignments/language-subtag-registry
    [113] http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc4647.txt

Hope that helps,
RI


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