On Fri, Sep 17, 2004 at 02:22:20AM +0200, Frank Lichtenheld wrote:
> tags 268381 patch
> thanks
>
> On Mon, Aug 30, 2004 at 11:37:10AM +0200, Gerfried Fuchs wrote:
> > * "Gabor Kiss [Bitman]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004-08-30 09:03]:
> > >> Which languages do you have selected? www.de.d.o has apache2 for some
> > >> weeks now, which seems to handle some things differently, still
> > >> investigating...
> > >
> > > 1. Hungarian
> > > 2. English
> > >
> > > user_pref("intl.accept_languages", "hu, en");
> >
> > You should set a quality mark for the languages, then.
> > "hu;q=1.0, en;q=0.5" works as expected.
> >
> > Apache2 seems to see non-qualified qualities as 1.0 (like it is
> > specified, iirc) and because they are the same it ranks the languages
> > according to the ordering in the webserver settings.
> >
> > We should document that more throughly on /intro/cn, I guess.
>
> Proposal for a patch:
> Index: english/intro/cn.wml
> ===================================================================
> RCS file: /cvs/webwml/webwml/english/intro/cn.wml,v
> retrieving revision 1.57
> diff -u -r1.57 cn.wml
> --- english/intro/cn.wml 16 Sep 2004 14:41:50 -0000 1.57
> +++ english/intro/cn.wml 17 Sep 2004 00:19:10 -0000
> @@ -92,6 +92,17 @@
> <p>See below for <a href="#setting">exact instructions on how to do this in
> specific browsers</a>.</p>
>
> +<p>As you can see there, most browsers will you present with some kind
present you
> +of user interface that will hide some of the details about defining
> +your preferred language. If this isn't the case please note one
^ insert comma
> +important simplification in the previous paragraph: If you're just
if
> +specifying a list of languages like 'fr, en' this doesn't yet define
> +a preference, but equally ranked options and the server may decide to
> +ignore their ordering. If you want to specify real preference you have
> +to use "quality values" which are floating point values between 0 and 1
> +where higher values indicate higher preference. So in the case above
> +you would probably use something like 'fr; q=1.0, en; q=0.5'.</p>
> +
> <p>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).</p>-- Matt Kraai [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://ftbfs.org/
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