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Re: New deb mother tongue?



Peter,

>    Explanation: A server that receives a request for a document with a
>    preferred language of 'en-GB, fr' will not serve the English ('en')
>    version before the French version.

That makes sense, but I don't see how anyone would read into that to expect
it to return Portugese when set to 'en-GB' only.

> Because en-us is not a supported language, which means that Apache
> returns a more-or-less arbitrary version....

It seems hard to imagine that Apache is as contrary or capricious as you
describe.

> Yeah. that default configuration is flawed. We have added workarounds
> for it on several of our pages, but not all.

That the most popular Web server can't serve languages properly without
workarounds or special settings into the most popular Web browser sounds
bizarre. Is there any Apache documentation of this "feature"?

Cheers,

Robin
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