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RFC 4646

Authors:

A. Phillips, Ed.
M. Davis, Ed.

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IETF

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ltru (app)

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DOI:  https://doi.org/10.17487/RFC5646

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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. 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.