Hi, At Fri, 3 Aug 2001 08:47:27 +0100, Ed Lazda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I don't know if you're aware of this, but your UK web page > www.uk.debian.org thinks it's in Chinese and doesn't display properly > in MSIE 5. On one system it even tried to download Chinese language > support. Perhaps your web browser is configured to prefer British English but it doesn't prefer (general) English in any priority. Please read http://www.debian.org/intro/cn.en.html . It reads: > One thing you need to be careful of is using sub-categories of > languages. Using 'en-GB, fr', for example, does not do what most > people expect (if they have not read the HTTP specification). A > server that receives a request for a document with a preferred > language of 'en-GB, fr' when both an 'en' and 'fr' version exist > will serve the French one. It will only serve the English document > before the French one if there is a version of the file with en-gb > for the language extension. Thus, you should configure your browser > to send 'en-GB, en, fr' or simply 'en, fr'. It does work the other > way though, e.g. a server can return en-us when en is requested. BTW, this is *very* frequently asked questions, although the explanation is available at the web page. Are there any way to ignore country extensions at the web server side? --- Tomohiro KUBOTA <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.debian.or.jp/~kubota/ "Introduction to I18N" http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/intro-i18n/
