Re: installation manual link: french!
On Wed, Aug 14, 2002 at 11:09:24AM +0200, Ulf Martin wrote:
> here is a problem with installation manual links on debian web pages:
> the links "installation manual" or "installationsanleitung" and the like
> on the floppy install pages point to the french version
> although they origin from pages in other languages
> e.g.
>
> http://www.debian.org/distrib/floppyinst.en.html
>
> points to
>
> http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/ch-install-methods#s-install-floppies
>
> i think it would be preferable
> to let pages point to the english version as a default
> if no native version is available,
> since i would assume that most people are more fluent in it,
> than french.
Yes, this would be logical, but due to a glitch in content negotiation, it
doesn't work out very well.
Most likely you can tune your language settings in the browser to accomodate
for this. Please see http://www.debian.org/intro/cn for more information.
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