The IESG has approved the following document: - 'Deprecating Unicode Language Tag Characters: RFC 2482 is Historic' <draft-presuhn-rfc2482-historic-02.txt> as an Informational RFC This document has been reviewed in the IETF but is not the product of an IETF Working Group. The IESG contact person is Alexey Melnikov. A URL of this Internet Draft is: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-presuhn-rfc2482-historic/ Technical Summary RFC 2482, Language Tagging in Unicode Plain Text, described a mechanism for using special Unicode language tag characters to identify languages when needed without more general markup such as that provided by XML. The Unicode Consortium has deprecated that facility and strongly recommends against its use. RFC 2482 should be moved to Historic to reduce the possibility that Internet implementers would consider that system an appropriate mechanism for identifying languages. Working Group Summary This is not a WG document. However it was a result of the discussion on the Apps Discuss mailing list. Document Quality This document was discussed on the Apps Area wide mailing list (Apps Discuss). It was also presented during the Apps Area meeting in Maastricht. Many people expressed support for this document (publicly and privately). Personnel Alexey Melnikov is the Responsible Area Director. _______________________________________________ IETF-Announce mailing list IETF-Announce@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf-announce
