Technical Summary
The document specifies the 'u-' extension to BCP 47 language tags,
which provides subtags that specify locale-oriented properties
(such as calendar, collation, currency, time zone) according to
work done by the Unicode Consortium in the context of CLDR (Common
Language Data Repository) and LDML (Locale Data Markup Language).
Working Group Summary
This document is not the product of any IETF working group.
Document Quality
The document has been reviewed by various language tagging and
localization experts. In the context of CLDR (Common Language Data
Repository) and LDML (Locale Data Markup Language), the proposed
extension will be used widely. Uses in other localization contexts
are also possible, because this extension provides a very
convenient way to extend IETF language tags (BCP47) with the
usually small missing bits of information to designate a locale.
Personnel
Martin J. Duerst is the Document Shepherd. Alexey Melnikov is the
Responsible Area Director.
RFC Editor Note
Please add RFC 2119 to the list of Normative References.
Please update the "Comments" field in the IANA registration template (in Section 2.2) to read:
OLD:
Comments: Subtags for the identification of language and cultural
variations. Used to set behavior in locale APIs. Data is
located in the "common/bcp47" directory inside the referenced
URL. Unicode Technical Standard #35 (LDML) provides additional
reference material defining the keys and values.
NEW:
Comments: Subtags for the identification of language and cultural
variations. Used to set behavior in locale APIs. Data is
located in the "common/bcp47" directory inside the referenced
URL. Unicode Technical Standard #35 (LDML) provides additional
reference material defining the keys and values.
For more details please see <http://cldr.unicode.org/index/bcp47-extension>.