This will allow codes like pt-BR or zh-Hant which is already used in at least one longdescription in the Gentoo repository.
Note that the L10N USE_EXPAND and GLEP 42 news items also use BCP 47 for language names. Bug: https://bugs.gentoo.org/578294 Signed-off-by: Ulrich Müller <u...@gentoo.org> --- glep-0068.rst | 22 ++++++++++++++-------- 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) diff --git a/glep-0068.rst b/glep-0068.rst index 83e54d9..78ac7ea 100644 --- a/glep-0068.rst +++ b/glep-0068.rst @@ -4,10 +4,10 @@ Title: Package and category metadata Author: Michał Górny <mgo...@gentoo.org> Type: Standards Track Status: Final -Version: 1.1 +Version: 1.2 Created: 2016-03-14 -Last-Modified: 2021-09-11 -Post-History: 2016-03-16, 2018-02-20 +Last-Modified: 2022-05-22 +Post-History: 2016-03-16, 2018-02-20, 2022-05-22 Content-Type: text/x-rst Requires: 67 Replaces: 34, 46, 56 @@ -106,8 +106,8 @@ The following common attributes are allowed on multiple elements: Language specifiers are used whenever an element supports variants in different languages. In this case, each occurrence of the element may -contain an optional ``lang=""`` attribute that contains a ISO 639-1 language -code. In case no ``lang=""`` attribute is provided, an implicit default +contain an optional ``lang=""`` attribute that contains an IETF language tag +[#BCP-47]_. In case no ``lang=""`` attribute is provided, an implicit default of ``en`` is assumed. Restriction specifiers are used whenever an element supports restricting to @@ -321,6 +321,9 @@ language identifier in any of the considered standards. Furthermore, since and no tools relied on the implicit default defined in the DTD, it was decided to change the implicit default to ``en``. +Language identifiers were later updated to allow full IETF language tags, +so that codes like ``pt-BR`` or ``zh-Hant`` can be represented. + Package restrictions -------------------- @@ -513,6 +516,9 @@ References .. [#METADATA-DTD] The original metadata.dtd file https://gitweb.gentoo.org/data/dtd.git/tree/metadata.dtd?id=a908a93b5afe295359e0a01814c9bef8b5268bcd +.. [#BCP-47] BCP 47: "Tags for identifying languages", + https://tools.ietf.org/rfc/bcp/bcp47.txt + .. [#ORIGINAL-METADATA-XML] The original metadata.xml proposal: Paul de Vrieze. "IMPORTANT: The proposal for the metadata.xml file". gentoo-dev mailing list, 2003-06-27, @@ -529,6 +535,6 @@ References Copyright ========= -This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 -Unported License. To view a copy of this license, visit -https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/. +This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 +International License. To view a copy of this license, visit +https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/. -- 2.35.1
