[Foundation-l] Community draft of language proposal policy

[Milos Rancic]

On Fri, Sep 5, 2008 at 1:02 PM, Tim Starling <tstarling at wikimedia.org> wrote:
> RFC 4646 is a superset of ISO 639. An RFC 4646 language tag typically
> consists of an ISO 639 code, optionally follwed by hyphen-separated
> subtags, which identify regional variations (such as en-AU), scripts (such
> as sr-Latn) or dialects recognised by IANA but not by the ISO 639
> authority (mostly obsolete with ISO 639-3). It also allows the
> construction of private-use language subtags, prefixed by "x-".
>
> RFC 4646 is the standard in computing, because it's often useful to be as
> precise as possible when identifying language variations. The original
> version of this language identification scheme was published in 1995 as
> RFC 1766.

And one more question, just to be sure: Internet standards (like
HTML/XML language tags or so) are using RFC 4646 codes, not ISO 639?