Re: Debian UK page
Hi,
At Fri, 3 Aug 2001 08:47:27 +0100,
Ed Lazda <lazdaej@cardiff.ac.uk> 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 <kubota@debian.org>
http://www.debian.or.jp/~kubota/
"Introduction to I18N" http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/intro-i18n/
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