On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 9:09 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > Comment from the i18n review of: > http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/WD-widgets-20090528/ > > Comment 5 > At http://www.w3.org/International/reviews/0907-widgets-pc/ > Editorial/substantive: S > Tracked by: AP > > Location in reviewed document: > Section 9.1, step 5 > [http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/WD-widgets-20090528/#step-5--derive-the-user-agents-locale] > > Comment: > In Step 5 of section 9.1, we find an arbitrary limit on locale identifiers > (BCP 47 language tags): > > > Each item in the unprocessed locales must be a string shorter than eight > characters, in lowercase form, that conforms to the production of a > Language-Tag, as defined in the [BCP47] specification. > > > This limit is too short for even some simple language tags. Consider > "zh-Hant-CN", which is given as an example in the document: it has 10 > characters. This limit really should be removed. The eight character limit is > on subtags. >
Agreed. This has been removed (it was identified by another commenter a few weeks ago). -- Marcos Caceres http://datadriven.com.au
