From 9d9be7742e8518dfb8c813968db47b5dd7acac7f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ben Allen <benallen@igalia.com>
Date: Thu, 29 Feb 2024 14:22:53 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] Editorial: Note harmlessness of testing invalid language tags
 inside BestAvailableLocale

---
 spec/negotiation.html | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/spec/negotiation.html b/spec/negotiation.html
index 5adb7c8a..d505210c 100644
--- a/spec/negotiation.html
+++ b/spec/negotiation.html
@@ -95,6 +95,10 @@ <h1>
           1. If _pos_ &ge; 2 and the character *"-"* occurs at index _pos_ - 2 of candidate, set _pos_ to _pos_ - 2.
           1. Set _candidate_ to the substring of _candidate_ from position 0, inclusive, to position _pos_, exclusive.
       </emu-alg>
+
+      <emu-note>
+        When _locale_ includes a <a href="https://unicode.org/reports/tr35/#BCP47_T_Extension">Unicode Technical Standard #35 Part 1 Core BCP 47 T Extension</a> subtag sequence, the truncation in this algorithm may temporarily generate invalid language tags. However, none of them will be returned because _availableLocales_ contains only valid language tags.
+      </emu-note>
     </emu-clause>
 
     <emu-clause id="sec-lookupmatcher" type="abstract operation">