Re: 2 many language tags for Norwegian

Leif Halvard Silli scripsit:

> Let's say I was a Swiss German Language enthusiast, using Apache, with a 
> site in Swiss German and English.  Main target audience: German 
> speakers, 99,99% of them without 'gsw' enabled. 

If you want to target German-speakers, write in Standard German.
Otherwise you are in the position of someone writing in Icelandic and
targeting Nynorsk users.  They won't have a clue.

> You may say I should not tag it as 'de', but can you say positively what 
> I should I do then, to reach my audience? Teach the hundred millions of 
> Germans how to insert 'gsw' into their browser?

Don't use language negotiation, but explicit links instead.

> > People in Germany (and Switzerland!), used to read German
> > every day, but rarely if ever seeing or reading Swiss German, have,
> > relatively speaking, much more difficulties. I'm Swiss, [...]
> 
> I fail to see that this is a real argument against 'de-gsw'.

He really really doesn't want to see gsw even if it's available,
*even though* he speaks gsw natively.  The fallback is worse than useless.

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