Robin Rowe:
> What do you think I should infer from the above as the reason Portugese is
> displayed when it is not specified as a country or language in the browser?
You missed this part:
Explanation: A server that receives a request for a document with a
preferred language of 'en-GB, fr' will not serve the English ('en')
version before the French version. 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.
> Why do you think a setting of en-us (only) should return Portugese?
Because en-us is not a supported language, which means that Apache
returns a more-or-less arbitrary version (I think it selects the
shortest one). It shouldn't happen for all files, though, since most of
them have a "default" version linked to the English, but for certain
unfortunate combinations of settings and pages, the effects are not
what would be expected.
> And, why should debian.org be the only site where this occurs?
It isn't.
> What we're talking about is a common default configuration for
> browsers, that is, en-us only.
Yeah. that default configuration is flawed. We have added workarounds
for it on several of our pages, but not all.
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