Language Tags and Locale Identifiers
Group: International Macintosh Users Group (IMUG)
(A Forum for Multilingual / Multiscript Computing)
Date: September 15, 2005, 7-9 p.m.
Speaker: Addison Phillips (Quest Software)
Topic: Language Tags and Locale Identifiers
Location: Apple Computer, Apple Campus, 1 Infinite Loop, Cupertino
Take Saratoga/Sunnyvale exit off 280, turn South into
Cupertino, turn left onto Mariani Avenue, left into
Infinite Loop.
Admission: $4, free for IMUG members
Contact: Roger Sherman, (650) 859-5981
roger [dot] sherman [at] sri [dot] com

Language tags, based on RFC 3066, form an important part of Internet
internationalization. For example, these tags are used to identify
language in HTML and XML, as well as negotiate language on the Web.
They are the de facto locale identifier for Web-based applications.

Recently there has been work to revise RFC 3066 and this includes many
new features, such as a subtag registry, support for script codes, and
other refinements.

In addition, the W3C has recently started work on a new Specification
to define locale identifiers for Web services and other Web
technologies. This work is expected to be based on existing support
for language tags, as well as the CLDR effort at Unicode.

This presentation, by one of the authors of the 3066 revision and
chair of the W3C effort, will look in depth at the new language tags
and explore how these may work in locale identifiers in the future.

Addison Phillips is the Globalization Architect for Quest Software, a
provider of solutions to help organizations get more performance and
productivity from their applications, databases and infrastructure. He
is the current chair of the W3C Internationalization Core Working
Group. He can be reached at mailto:addison.phillips@....

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