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Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2005 09:37:56 +0100
From: Thomas Baker <thomas.baker@bi.fhg.de>
To: DCMI Usage Board <dc-usage@jiscmail.ac.uk>
Subject: Problem with comment for dc:language?
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Dear all,

We received this comment from Martin Dürst of W3C about the Comment for
dc:language.

Tom


On Tue, Mar 22, 2005 at 06:09:08PM -0500, duerst@w3.org wrote:
> Submitter Name: Martin Dürst
> Submitter Email: duerst@w3.org
> Feedback Type: Comment
> 
> This is a comment about http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/,
> in particular Element Name: Language. It currently says:
> 'Recommended best practice is to use RFC 3066 .... Examples include "en" or "eng" for English...'. This should be fixed.
> "eng" is not valid in RFC 3066; RFC 3066 clearly says that
> if there is a two-letter and a three-letter code for a
> language, the two-letter code MUST be used.
> 
> Regards,   Martin.

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Date:         Wed, 23 Mar 2005 08:51:33 -0000
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From: Andrew Wilson <andrew.c.wilson@AHDS.AC.UK>
Subject: Re: Problem with comment for dc:language?
To: DC-USAGE@JISCMAIL.AC.UK
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Well he's right. RFC 3066 says quite explicitly that you must use a 2 letter
code from ISO 639-1 unless the language only has a 3 letter code. We need to
change the comment .