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authorEike Rathke <erack@redhat.com>2018-05-24 21:23:33 +0200
committerEike Rathke <erack@redhat.com>2018-05-24 21:25:37 +0200
commit7c0c35b468be215d6d7b450f2c621d792d201413 (patch)
tree63c44823a787f9941daffa81070e84ec17bb77f6 /i18npool
parented22b6b75400cab3b3774f4c744cb337d35b0f10 (diff)
Document locale data's use of the Variant element as BCP 47 language tag
Change-Id: I8d2c4bb95ae50e7d23a89db1dd6bb197d3af65c0
Diffstat (limited to 'i18npool')
-rw-r--r--i18npool/source/localedata/data/locale.dtd11
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/i18npool/source/localedata/data/locale.dtd b/i18npool/source/localedata/data/locale.dtd
index fd4a523f12c8..ed50ff8c5539 100644
--- a/i18npool/source/localedata/data/locale.dtd
+++ b/i18npool/source/localedata/data/locale.dtd
@@ -127,6 +127,12 @@
<!-- LangID must be a valid two or three letter language identifier defined by
ISO 639. Use ISO 639-1 two letter code where available, else ISO 639-2 or
639-3 three letter code.
+
+ If the Variant element designates a BCP 47 language tag (because the
+ locale is not expressable as a Language,Country pair, for example contains
+ a script tag) then the LangID value MUST be the code 'qlt' (reserved by
+ ISO 639-3 for private use) to tell the language tag processor that the
+ actual language tag is in the Variant element.
-->
<!ELEMENT Country (CountryID, DefaultName) >
@@ -140,7 +146,10 @@
-->
<!ELEMENT Variant (#PCDATA) >
-<!-- Reserved for future use, currently unused. -->
+<!-- If the LangID element contains the value 'qlt' then the Variant element
+ MUST contain the valid BCP 47 language tag of the locale. If LangID is
+ another ISO 639 code than 'qlt' then the Variant element must be empty.
+-->
<!-- The LC_FORMAT element contains number format codes and may actually appear