- From: Marcos Caceres <marcosc@opera.com>
- Date: Fri, 10 Jul 2009 17:20:14 +0200
- To: "Phillips, Addison" <addison@amazon.com>
- Cc: "ishida@w3.org" <ishida@w3.org>, "public-Webapps@w3.org" <public-Webapps@w3.org>, "public-i18n-core@w3.org" <public-i18n-core@w3.org>
On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 4:40 PM, Phillips, Addison<addison@amazon.com> wrote: > (personal response) > >> >> The WebApps WG believes that removing the redundant repetitions in >> a >> standardized way may avoid interop issues. Having said that, in the >> latest editors' draft, the rightmost occurrences are removed (as >> suggested above). > > Actually, I don't believe that there are interoperability issues to avoid. If two identical ranges appear in a language priority list, the second occurrence will produce the same results as the first one. If you are processing the second one, presumably the result will be no match. > > Note that, with the lookup algorithm, this also applies to ranges that are prefixes of other ranges. For example, consider the list "en-us-boont,en". The second item (en) mirrors the last match attempted with "en-us-boont". > > It is an optimization to omit these ranges, but won't change the results. Agreed. You are right, it makes no difference (just the list is ugly:)) so it is just a tiny editorial change: I've removed "step 4" and updated examples. >> >> Please see for the updated algorithm: >> http://dev.w3.org/2006/waf/widgets/#step-5--derive-the-user-agents- >> locale >> > > Thanks. We'll review it. > > Addison > > > -- Marcos Caceres http://datadriven.com.au
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