Re: (ACCEPT*) Last call on draft text for Accept headers
Koen Holtman (koen@win.tue.nl)
Sat, 6 Apr 1996 01:09:15 +0200 (MET DST)
Tim Greenwood:
>
>Koen Holtman wrote
>
>> I believe your proposal for simplification is based on a misreading of
>> the syntax definition of language tags. The current rule needs to be
>> this complicated because there can be more than one subtag.
>>
>> The matching rule currently defined will allow the range "i-sami" to
>> match the tag "i-sami-da". Your proposed simplification will not
>> allow this.
>
>The proposal was intended not as a simplification, but as a
>clarification. Your comment is correct, my proposal would have
>excluded a match that should be allowed. The text in 10.4 should
>still be rewritten to use the syntax defined in 3.10. The current
>text uses the term 'a prefix' which is not defined.
Ah, so _that_ is the problem. I assumed that 'prefix' was standard
computing terminology, but apparantly it is not. (Prefix means
"initial part of a string".) I'll see if I can find an alternative
wording.
>It could be
>interpreted to allow a match of a language range to any but the last
>subtag of a language-tag. Thus
>
>Accept-Language:cy (Welsh)
>
>could match el-cy-x (Greek in Cyprus with some other subtag).
>
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Koen.