l10n.lang.value.rfc.compliant.xml #1

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<refpurpose>Make value of lang attribute RFC compliant?</refpurpose>
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<refsection><info><title>Description</title></info>

<para>If non-zero, ensure that the values for all <tag class="attribute">lang</tag> attributes in HTML output are RFC
compliant<footnote><para>Section 8.1.1, <link xlink:href="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/struct/dirlang.html#h-8.1.1">Language Codes</link>, in the HTML 4.0 Recommendation states that:

<blockquote><para>[RFC1766] defines and explains the language codes
that must be used in HTML documents.</para>
<para>Briefly, language codes consist of a primary code and a possibly
empty series of subcodes:

<literallayout class="monospaced">language-code = primary-code ( "-" subcode )*</literallayout>
</para>
<para>And in RFC 1766, <link xlink:href="http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1766.txt">Tags for the Identification
of Languages</link>, the EBNF for "language tag" is given as:

<literallayout class="monospaced">Language-Tag = Primary-tag *( "-" Subtag )
Primary-tag = 1*8ALPHA
Subtag = 1*8ALPHA</literallayout>
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by taking any underscore characters in any <tag class="attribute">lang</tag> values found in source documents, and
replacing them with hyphen characters in output HTML files. For
example, <literal>zh_CN</literal> in a source document becomes
<literal>zh-CN</literal> in the HTML output form that source.

<note>
<para>This parameter does not cause any case change in <tag class="attribute">lang</tag> values, because RFC 1766
explicitly states that all "language tags" (as it calls them) "are
to be treated as case insensitive".</para>
</note>
</para>

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