- From: Lachlan Hunt <lachlan.hunt@lachy.id.au>
- Date: Sun, 05 Feb 2006 09:12:56 +1100
- To: Tina Holmboe <tina@greytower.net>
- CC: Laurens Holst <lholst@students.cs.uu.nl>, www-html@w3.org
Tina Holmboe wrote: > On Sat, Feb 04, 2006 at 04:48:27PM +0100, Laurens Holst wrote: > >>> I disagree. Accept-Language would be one of the most important >>> features of an user agent *if* it contained real information. >> It does. It is frequently used by websites such as hotmail, Google, >> mozilla-europe.org and other large sites to present the user with a > > In the case of Google, this is sadly not true. Actually, Google do make use of Accept-Language in some cases, although it seems that in the case of English, they make use of other heuristics (such as the IP address) to guess. I tried adding both Chinese (zh) and German (de) to the top of my language list, then deleted cookies, and in each case, I received that language from the Google sites I visited including google.com, google.com.au, google.se and google.no. -- Lachlan Hunt http://lachy.id.au/
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