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Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2001 21:58:48 +0000 (GMT)
From: Nick Kew <nick@webthing.com>
To: new-httpd@apache.org
cc: apache-docs@apache.org
Subject: Re: Language Negotiation: "No Acceptable Variant"
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On Mon, 29 Jan 2001, Joshua Slive wrote:

> On Mon, 29 Jan 2001, Koen Holtman wrote:
> > Wait a minute: is the problem that these many people send, say
> >
> >  Accept-language: fr
> >
> > when they in fact speak en+fr and prefer en, or is the problem that their
> > browsers do not send any accept-language at all?
> >
> 
> The problem is people who send
>   Accept-language: de
>        or
>   Accept-language: en-gb

ISPs will supply browsers configured to the language they expect their
users to speak.  So naturally languages like de and fr are widespread.
I guess the same argument goes for en-gb, though surely that at least
should be read as implying a lower preference generic-en?  Brits *can*
read merkin, even those of us who prefer english.

-- 
Nick Kew