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Subject: Re: [office] Proposal for language tags according to RFC 4646
Hi Michael, On Monday, 2006-12-04 15:13:04 +0100, Michael Brauer wrote: > Since we started using the XSL-FO concept, I think it's reasonable to > continue with that. This also ensures compatibility with ODF 1.1 > applications, that would use all language/country information when > reading an ODF 1.2 file if we switch to a single RFC 4646 attribute now. > > I'v checked XSL 1.1, which is a proposed recommendation, and it only has > language, country and script, too. We could take the script attribute > from there, XSL 1.1 narrows language/country to RFC 3066, which formally covers only ISO 639-1 and ISO 639-2 and IANA-registered languages, and does not cover the upcoming ISO/FDIS 639-3 nor other language designators that might be valid according to RFC 4646. I don't know whether that is really an obstacle and would affect us or not, just want to mention. > and could add a single attribute from our own namespaces > that contains the > > [region] *("-" variant) *("-" extension) ["-" privateuse] > fragment of RFC 4646. Note that the region is (most times? always? need to reread RFC 4646) the country. Eike -- OpenOffice.org Engineering at Sun: http://blogs.sun.com/GullFOSS
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