RFC - 4646
Tags for Identifying Languages
| Original: | ftp://ftp.isi.edu/in-notes/rfc4646.txt |
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| Authors: | A. Phillips [Yahoo! Inc.], M. Davis [Google] |
| Date: | September 2006 |
| Category: | Best Current Practice [ BCP-47 ] |
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| RFC-3066 | Tags for the Identification of Languages (Obsoleted by RFC-4646, RFC-4647) |
| Referred by: | 7 RFC |
| Refers to: | 15 RFC |
Status
This document specifies an Internet Best Current Practices for the Internet Community, and requests discussion and suggestions for improvements. Distribution of this memo is unlimited.
Copyright Notice
Copyright (C) The Internet Society (2005).
Abstract
This document describes the structure, content, construction, and semantics of language tags for use in cases where it is desirable to indicate the language used in an information object. It also describes how to register values for use in language tags and the creation of user-defined extensions for private interchange. This document, in combination with RFC 4647, replaces RFC 3066, which replaced RFC 1766.
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prepared by Miloslav Nic
- the founder of Zvon.org and Law-Ref.org
- the head of B.Sc. program Informatics and chemistry [in Czech]
- the founder of Lidem.org - Volby 2006 - parliamentary elections in the Czech Republic [in Czech]
- the chief consultant of the publishing house ICT Press
- and Pavel Srb, a student of B.Sc. program Informatics and chemistry