question about RFC4240 (NETANN)

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On 8/31/06 2:31 AM, "Eric Burger"
<eburgercantata.com> wrote:

> Oooh - good catch of what looks like an error.  From a
strict
> constructionist point of view, the page 7 text is
normative, so underbar
> reigns.  However, one can make a very convincing
argument the reference to
> RFC 3066 is normative, hence it should be a hyphen.
> 
> AFAIK, all implementations to date of RFC 4240 use
underbar.  Is there
> enough confusion out there to create an update to 4240?
 Note that 4240 is
> not a PS, so this isn't a DS opportunity.
> 
> 
> On 8/25/06 7:48 AM, "olivier.ro.rousseaualcatel.be"
> <olivier.ro.rousseaualcatel.be> wrote:
> 
>> Hello,
>> 
>> I have a problem with the RFC 4240.
>> The language parameter is defined in the page 10.
>>    locale-param    = "locale=" token
>>                         ; per RFC 3066, usually
>>                         ; ISO639-1_ISO3166-1
>>                         ; e.g., en, en_US, en_UK,
etc.
>> and is explained in page 7
>> locale
>>       Specifies the language and optionally country
variant of the
>>       announcement sequence named in the
"play=" parameter.  RFC 3066
>>       [9] specifies the locale tag.  The locale tag
is usually a two- or
>>       three-letter code per ISO 639-1 [11].  The
country variant is also
>>       often a two-letter code per ISO 3166-1 [12]. 
These elements are
>>       concatenated with a single under bar (%x5F)
character, such as
>>       "en_CA".
>> 
>> However whe I look in the RFC3066 I found
>>     Language-Tag = Primary-subtag *(
"-" Subtag )
>> 
>>     Primary-subtag = 1*8ALPHA
>> 
>>     Subtag = 1*8(ALPHA / DIGIT)
>> 
>> In the RFC3261, the Accept-Langugae is defined as
>> Accept-Language  =  "Accept-Language"
HCOLON
>>                      [ language *(COMMA language) ]
>> language         =  language-range *(SEMI
accept-param)
>> language-range   =  ( ( 1*8ALPHA *( "-"
1*8ALPHA ) ) / "*" )
>> 
>> You can see that one RFC says that a
"_" must be used between the two
>> subtags while the two others says that it must be a
"-".
>> And worse the RFC4240 refers to RFC3066 but uses a
different syntax in
>> its BNF and in its text (
>> 
>> Could someone clarify what I should use?
>> 
>> Thanks and regards,
>> Olivier
>> 
>> 
>> 
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