Bruce Lilly scripsit: > > Finding country codes is straightforward: any non-initial subtag of > > two letters (not appearing to the right of "x-" or "-x-") is a country > > code. This is true in RFC 1766, RFC 3066, and the current draft. > > I believe that: > 1. it is not strictly true of the registered tag sgn-CH-de, except > by the coincidence that "de" describes a language as well as a > country; unless Switzerland has united with Germany when I > wasn't paying attention. Fair enough: "de" in this case is clearly not a country code. > 2. there is no way that an RFC 3066 parser could have made such an > assumption as there is no specification regarding interpretation > of 2-letter subtags in the 3rd or subsequent positions. In > particular, what you state as a rule appears nowhere in 1766 or > 3066. I stated it (again) as the truth, not a rule; but I concede that it is not the truth. -- John Cowan http://www.ccil.org/~cowan jcowan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Be yourself. Especially do not feign a working knowledge of RDF where no such knowledge exists. Neither be cynical about RELAX NG; for in the face of all aridity and disenchantment in the world of markup, James Clark is as perennial as the grass. --DeXiderata, Sean McGrath _______________________________________________ Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf