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BEST CURRENT PRACTICE

Obsoletes:

RFC 3066

Obsoleted by:

RFC 5646

Authors:

A. Phillips
M. Davis

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IETF

Source:

ltru (app)

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DOI:  https://doi.org/10.17487/RFC4646

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Abstract

This document describes the structure, content, construction, andsemantics of language tags for use in cases where it is desirable toindicate the language used in an information object. It alsodescribes how to register values for use in language tags and thecreation of user-defined extensions for private interchange. Thisdocument, in combination with RFC 4647, replaces RFC 3066, whichreplaced RFC 1766. This document specifies an Internet Best Current Practices for theInternet Community, and requests discussion and suggestions forimprovements.

For the definition ofStatus,seeRFC 2026.

For the definition ofStream, seeRFC 8729.