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fix(lang): remove ref to ISO 3166 (closes #488)
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marcoscaceres committed Aug 25, 2016
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(see the <a href=
"https://www.iana.org/assignments/language-subtag-registry">IANA
Language Subtag Registry</a> for an authoritative list of possible
values, see also the <a href=
"https://www.iso.org/iso/country_codes/iso_3166_code_lists/country_names_and_code_elements">
Maintenance Agency for ISO 3166 country codes</a>). That is, a
language range is composed of one or more <dfn>subtags</dfn> that are
delimited by a U+002D HYPHEN-MINUS ("-"). For example, the
'<code>en-AU</code>' language range represents English as spoken in
Australia, and '<code>fr-CA</code>' represents French as spoken in
Canada. Language tags that meet the validity criteria of [[!RFC5646]]
section 2.2.9 that can be verified without reference to the IANA
Language Subtag Registry are considered structurally valid.
values). That is, a language range is composed of one or more
<dfn>subtags</dfn> that are delimited by a U+002D HYPHEN-MINUS ("-").
For example, the '<code>en-AU</code>' language range represents
English as spoken in Australia, and '<code>fr-CA</code>' represents
French as spoken in Canada. Language tags that meet the validity
criteria of [[!RFC5646]] section 2.2.9 that can be verified without
reference to the IANA Language Subtag Registry are considered
structurally valid.
</p>
<p>
The <dfn>steps for processing the <code>lang</code> member</dfn> is
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