Re: en-au + www.au.debian.org -> Norwegian
You say below that you have symlinks from en-us and en-gb to en. They
appear to be broken for DWN as there is a problem with
http://www.debian.org/News/weekly/ and en-us.
It sounds like en-au should be added to that symlink list as well.
I understand your frustration with the browsers not following the spec.
However, the simple fact is very few users find this problem on other
sites, so they assume that the problem is yours. I think it this case it
is better for the users AND Debian for the webpages to look right
rather than be right.
-Jeff
On Mon, 19 Nov 2001, James A. Treacy wrote:
> For an explanation of what is going on see
> http://www.debian.org/intro/cn.en.html
>
> > I have resolved this problem by choosing adding the language "en" to my
> > browser's language list - the problem I describe also occurs with en-us,
> > though I haven't tested other en-* variants.
> >
> Using 'en' is the right thing to do. Only a few languages have a need to
> use country variants. For the rest it just causes problems. The http
> spec is very clear on this issue and warns browser authors to not lead
> users astray.
>
> > Ironically this problem does not occur on www.debian.org, which is hosted
> > outside of Australia.
> >
> www.debian.org should have the same problem with en-au, but not if you
> use en-us or en-gb. Unfortunately, this has become enough of a problem
> that we created sylinks for those two common country variants as it was
> easier than trying to educate the masses.
>
> Notifying the web mirrors of this change is on my TODO list.
>
> --
> James (Jay) Treacy
> treacy@debian.org
>
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