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- From: Tim Bray <tbray@textuality.com>
- To: Elliotte Rusty Harold <elharo@metalab.unc.edu>, "Unicode List" <unicode@unicode.org>
- Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2000 11:44:49 -0700
At 01:24 PM 4/25/00 -0400, Elliotte Rusty Harold wrote:
>Has anybody noticed that XML 1.0 requires 2-letter and forbids
>three-letter language codes? From section 2.1.2 of the XML 1.0 spec:
...
>Production 35 enforces this constraint.
>I think XML needs another erratum here to fix this.
Yes... there was a good reason, but I don't recall what it was; we
looked at the 3-letter options carefully. I seem to recall a finding
that the ISO process on finalizing the 3-letter version seemed to be
seriously hung, but this is back in 1997... -Tim
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