[kdewebdev-site] HTTP Language request header

[Chris Hornbaker]

On Tuesday 27 April 2004 04:50, David Joham wrote:
> Chris et. al...
>
> One thing I noticed in common with your proposals is that you are allowing
> the user to select the language. Are you planning on having that be the
> default behavior or are you going to use the HTTP Language Accept header as
> the default?

I use that for the default, but allow the user to override it.

> To me, it seems a reasonable default to use the HTTP header as the primary
> factor in determining what language to serve. We can always give the user
> the option to ovverride this setting with a drop down box and a cookie -
> but why make someone choose Klingon from a drop down box when their browser
> tells us it's their default language and we have it available?
>

Because computers are dumb, of course!

For example, I use the jbo_US.UTF-8 locale, but mozilla says I'm "en-us; en". 

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