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Leif Halvard Silli <lhs@malform.no> Mon, 26 May 2008 00:59 UTC

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Subject: Re: [Ltru] my technical position on extlang
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Shawn Steele 2008-05-26 01.15:

> RFC 2616 may say that, but in practice that's not really true.
> Many servers will return en if en-US is requested and en content
> exists but en-US doesn't.


This is, I think, what John explained about Apache to Mark.

LH

> IE 6 was also pretty mixed up with the default languages,
> knowing specific languages for en-US, etc., but French just got
> fr, no fr-FR option. Region-neutral resources aren't requested by
> default from IE 6 (unless you happened to be French or some other
> country where your country code matches your language code by
> accident).


 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Peter Constable
> Sent: Sunday, May 25, 2008 2:35 PM
> To: LTRU Working Group
> Subject: Re: [Ltru] my technical position on extlang
> 
>> From: ltru-bounces@ietf.org [mailto:ltru-bounces@ietf.org] On Behalf Of
>> Leif Halvard Silli
> 
> 
>> Ok, so you want to discus your 0.00001% of Chinese resources which are
>> in Cantonese ...
>>
>>     * Firstly, you should not need to say 'zh' when you have said
>>       'zh-cmn', since Web servers wiill see that zh-cmn as a partly
>>       match for 'zh'. So I disagree that you really need to include
>>       'zh' here.
> 

> Please read RFC 2616, section 14.4: if an HTTP header requests

zh-cmn and the content is tagged zh, there will not be a match. If
the content is tagged zh, then zh must be requested.
-- 

leif halvard silli

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