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Re: [Ltru] Issue 113 (language tag matching (Accept-Language) vs RFC4647), was: Proposed resolution for Issue 13 (language tags)

"Phillips, Addison" <addison@amazon.com> Sat, 18 July 2009 20:07 UTC

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From: "Phillips, Addison" <addison@amazon.com>
To: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
Date: Sat, 18 Jul 2009 13:04:40 -0700
Thread-Topic: Issue 113 (language tag matching (Accept-Language) vs RFC4647), was: [Ltru] Proposed resolution for Issue 13 (language tags)
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Subject: Re: [Ltru] Issue 113 (language tag matching (Accept-Language) vs RFC4647), was: Proposed resolution for Issue 13 (language tags)
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Hi,
> 
> actually we *do* track this separately; the issue is
> <http://trac.tools.ietf.org/wg/httpbis/trac/ticket/113>, and we
> thought
> we were done with it almost a year ago. See discussion around
> <http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/ietf-http-
> wg/2008JulSep/0214.html>.

Thanks for this. I meant as an open issue. I scanned the list but didn't see this one.

> 
> The intention was to normatively refer to that matching algorithm
> that
> actually is equivalent to what RFC2616 used to define (remember,
> we're
> not changing the protocol here). Did we pick the wrong one?
> 

I responded in my response to John Cowan. I think I would want to reopen this issue. Compatibility is a Good Thing, but as I said, I think language negotiation has evolved somewhat and you could incorporate more of 4647 rather than strictly requiring Basic Filtering.

Addison

Addison Phillips
Globalization Architect -- Lab126

Internationalization is not a feature.
It is an architecture.

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