- From: Martin Duerst <duerst@w3.org>
- Date: Sat, 20 Dec 2003 18:41:38 -0500
- To: Tex Texin <tex@i18nguy.com>, John Yunker <yunkerjohn@yahoo.com>
- Cc: GEO <public-i18n-geo@w3.org>, Yves Savourel <ysavourel@translate.com>, "Fran輟is Yergeau" <francois@yergeau.com>
At 15:40 03/12/19 -0500, Tex Texin wrote: >John, > >Good comments. > >1) On deep linking from search engines and elsewhere, I would think that >most of the time the search would result in a page that was in one of >the languages of the user. I know it is not always true, but I wouldn't >think using lang. negotiation would be an improvement most of the time >for a deep link. > >But that's a good use case for language selection being available on >every page and for it not to return to the top of the tree, but a >reasonable counterpart of the page the language switch is being made >from. I agree. If the material is really parallel, e.g. stuff such as manuals, it can be helpful to send somebody a link, and they get the page in their language (if available). >2) I don't know the answer to the question on htaccess for changing >language directories rather than pages. >I had the same question. It must be possible with Apache, because the Apache documentation project uses it. Look e.g. at http://httpd.apache.org/docs-2.0/en/content-negotiation.html http://httpd.apache.org/docs-2.0/ko/content-negotiation.html http://httpd.apache.org/docs-2.0/ja/content-negotiation.html and http://httpd.apache.org/docs-2.0/content-negotiation.html. But I haven't figured it out yet, but it seems to involve more than just simple configuration directives. Regards, Martin.
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