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Re: Just English



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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