Bug#114348: www.debian.org: some items in the site map appearing in the wrong language
"James A. Treacy" <treacy@debian.org> writes:
> Apache closely follows the http/1.1 spec. This means an 'en' variant
> will not be returned when 'en-us' is requested. On the other hand,
> an 'en-whatever' variant can be returned when 'en' is requested. Go
> figure.
>
> While apache is technically correct, it is completely unintuitive
> and causes problems when using content negotiation with every
> browser that uses country codes by default (which is a lot - even
> though the http spec cautions against this).
Ah, it' s funny. I remember reading your stuff on this before.
I guess if you want you can leave this closed, on the argument that
Gerfried made, of "technical correctness". However, I think that is
short-sighted and unfriendly to users.
I personally still think it's a (non-major) problem with
www.debian.org. After all, the browser as shipped comes with en_US
enabled (I believe) and this does cause some problems when seeing that
particular page (why that one and not others I dunno). It doesn't
seem to be right that in Debian, the mozilla browser as shipped causes
problems with viewing www.debian.org itself!
Perhaps it's a mozilla bug if it really does come shipped this way.
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...Adam Di Carlo..<adam@onshore-devel.com>...<URL:http://www.onshored.com/>
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