# Copyright (C) 2006-2009, Google, International Business Machines Corporation and others. All Rights Reserved. # Regex for recognizing RFC 4646 well-formed tags # http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc4646.txt # http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-ltru-4646bis-21 # The structure requires no forward references, so it reverses the order. # It uses Java/Perl syntax instead of the old ABNF # The uppercase comments are fragments copied from RFC 4646 # Note: the tool requires that any real "=" or "#" or ";" in the regex be escaped. $alpha = [a-z] ; # ALPHA $digit = [0-9] ; # DIGIT $alphanum = [a-z 0-9] ; # ALPHA / DIGIT $x = x ; # private use singleton $singleton = [a-w y-z] ; # other singleton $s = [-_] ; # separator -- lenient parsers will use [-_] -- strict will use [-] # Now do the components. The structure is slightly different to allow for capturing the right components. # The notation (?:....) is a non-capturing version of (...): so the "?:" can be deleted if someone doesn't care about capturing. $language = $alpha{2,8} | $alpha{2,3} $s $alpha{3}; # ABNF (2*3ALPHA) / 4ALPHA / 5*8ALPHA --- note: because of how | works in regex, don't use $alpha{2,3} | $alpha{4,8} # We don't have to have the general case of extlang, because there can be only one extlang (except for zh-min-nan). # Note: extlang invalid in Unicode language tags $script = $alpha{4} ; # 4ALPHA $region = $alpha{2} | $digit{3} ; # 2ALPHA / 3DIGIT $variant = (?: $alphanum{5,8} | $digit $alphanum{3} ) ; # 5*8alphanum / (DIGIT 3alphanum) $extension = $singleton (?: $s $alphanum{2,8} )+ ; # singleton 1*("-" (2*8alphanum)) $privateUse = $x (?: $s $alphanum{1,8} )+ ; # "x" 1*("-" (1*8alphanum)) # Define certain grandfathered codes, since otherwise the regex is pretty useless. # Since these are limited, this is safe even later changes to the registry -- # the only oddity is that it might change the type of the tag, and thus # the results from the capturing groups. # http://www.iana.org/assignments/language-subtag-registry # Note that these have to be compared case insensitively, requiring (?i) below. $grandfathered = en $s GB $s oed | i $s (?: ami | bnn | default | enochian | hak | klingon | lux | mingo | navajo | pwn | tao | tay | tsu ) | no $s (?: bok | nyn ) | sgn $s (?: BE $s (?: fr | nl) | CH $s de ) | zh $s min $s nan; # old: | zh $s (?: cmn (?: $s Hans | $s Hant )? | gan | min (?: $s nan)? | wuu | yue ); # For well-formedness, we don't need the ones that would otherwise pass. # For validity, they need to be checked. # $grandfatheredWellFormed = (?: # art $s lojban # | cel $s gaulish # | zh $s (?: guoyu | hakka | xiang ) # ); # Unicode locales: but we are shifting to a compatible form # $keyvalue = (?: $alphanum+ \= $alphanum+); # $keywords = ($keyvalue (?: \; $keyvalue)*); # We separate items that we want to capture as a single group $variantList = $variant (?: $s $variant )* ; # special for multiples $extensionList = $extension (?: $s $extension )* ; # special for multiples $langtag = (?: ( $language ) (?: $s ( $script ) )? 40% (?: $s ( $region ) )? 40% (?: $s ( $variantList ) )? 10% (?: $s ( $extensionList ) )? 5% (?: $s ( $privateUse ) )? 5%); # Here is the final breakdown, with capturing groups for each of these components # The variants, extensions, grandfathered, and private-use may have interior '-' $root = (?i) # case-insensitive (?: $langtag 90% | ( $privateUse ) 5% | ( $grandfathered ) 5%) # (?: \@ $keywords )? 5% ;