From: Stephane Bortzmeyer (bortzmeyer@nic.fr)
Date: Mon Jul 24 2006 - 06:40:39 CDT
On Mon, Jul 24, 2006 at 11:43:12AM +0200,
Philippe Verdy <verdy_p@wanadoo.fr> wrote
a message of 28 lines which said:
> Things would be easier if the RFC 3066 was updated now with clear
> guidelines about how to specify and handle the ISO 15924 script
> codes in locale IDs.
It is updated (the new text has been approved in november 2005), just
not yet issued. And it deals with script codes.
The new text:
http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-ltru-registry-14.txt
Its status in the RFC editor queue:
http://www.rfc-editor.org/queue.html#draft-ietf-ltru-registry
> Now that Iso 15924 is there since some time, it becomes urgent to
> create a working team for handling locale ids, to completely revamp
> RFC 3066 and to write its successor.
Do not worry, it was already done :-)
> how to handle legacy locale codes that contain codes that have been
> withdrawn from ISO3166 or ISO 639
The solution has been to "fork" partially ISO3166. And to keep a
registry at IANA.
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