Tags for Identifying Languages

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Publisher: IETF
Doc Type: Best Practice
Pages: 59
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. This document specifies an Internet Best Current Practices for the Internet Community, and requests discussion and suggestions for improvements.
Publication Date: 2006-09-01
Status Note: Best Current Practice
DOI: 10.17487/RFC4646
Link: https://doi.org/10.17487/RFC4646
Author(s): Addison Phillips
Mark Davis
Keyword(s): Lang-tag

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Normative Reference(s)

ISO 639-1:2002 [Active]
ISO 639-2:1998 [Active]
ISO 646:1991 [Active]
ISO 3166-1:1997 [Withdrawn]
ISO 10646:2003 [Withdrawn]
ISO 15924:2004 [Active]
Statistics Division, United Nations, "Standard Country or Area Codes for Statistical Use", UN Standard Country or Area Codes for Statistical Use, Revision 4 (United Nations publication, Sales No. 98.XVII.9, June 1999. EXTERNAL
IETF RFC 2026 [Active*]
IETF RFC 2028 [Superseded*]
IETF RFC 2119 [Active*]
IETF RFC 2434 [Superseded*]
IETF RFC 2860 [Active*]
IETF RFC 3339 [Active*]
IETF RFC 4234 [Superseded*]

Bibliographic Reference(s)

ISBN.0131429019 — record-jar EXTERNAL
ISO.639 — iso639.prin EXTERNAL
Bray (et al), T., "Extensible Markup Language (XML) 1.0", 02 2004. EXTERNAL
IETF RFC 1766 [Superseded*]
IETF RFC 2047 [Active*]
IETF RFC 2231 [Active*]
IETF RFC 2781 [Active*]
IETF RFC 3066 [Superseded*]
IETF RFC 3552 [Active*]
IETF RFC 4645 [Active*]
IETF RFC 4647 [Active*]
UNICODE.STD.5.0 — Unicode EXTERNAL
W3C XML Schema P2 [Active]

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IETF RFC 4645 [Active*]
IETF RFC 4647 [Active*]
IETF RFC 4690 [Active*]
IETF RFC 4790 [Active*]
IETF RFC 5139 [Active*]
IETF RFC 5424 [Active*]
IETF RFC 5645 [Active*]
IETF RFC 5646 [Active*]