On Tue, Oct 25, 2005 at 12:39:51PM +0200, Richard Atterer wrote: > On Mon, Oct 24, 2005 at 04:58:51PM +0200, Frans Pop wrote: > > No, the language that is shown has nothing to do with the country you are > > in. The debian website does use content negotiation though and will > > display be default the language that is set as the preferred language *in > > your browser*. > > Still, we really *should* allow for users to switch to another language > without reconfiguring their browser. What if I usually want English, but > prefer German just for debian.org? > > The great thing is that supporting this would be very easy: Upgrade > www.debian.org to Apache 2.0, write a small script which sets a language > cookie, then use this Apache directive: > > SetEnvIf Cookie "language=en" prefer-language=en > > ...etc for all languages. It's not quite as easy as that: we'd also need to perform the same on the web site mirrors (or disable them). -- Matt
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