Re: Accept-Language language tag order

On 2012-04-28 22:04, Gordon P. Hemsley wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> Back in November, there was a discussion [1] about the priority of
> language tag order in the Accept-Language header. The discussion
> centered around whether the order of language tags with equal quality
> values (usually 1) was significant, and it seemed the consensus was to
> not change the spec to say that they were, since most browser UAs
> tended to send quality values correctly and changing the semantics of
> the spec requires extreme circumstances.
>
> However, I wonder if it might be beneficial to put a SHOULD in the
> spec suggesting that UAs to sort the language tags in descending
> quality order. I think most UAs already do this, and a SHOULD leaves
> enough leeway for those who implemented the old standard, where things
> were left ambiguous.
> ...

Could you explain how that would help?

Best regards, Julian

Received on Monday, 4 June 2012 17:43:43 UTC