- From: Peter Constable <petercon@microsoft.com>
- Date: Wed, 15 Dec 2004 18:39:21 -0800
- To: <www-international@w3.org>
> From: www-international-request@w3.org [mailto:www-international-request@w3.org] > On Behalf Of A. Vine > It's true, though the more specific, the less of a chance of matching. > It might be nice to know that the German if spoken through a synthesizer > is that of the Lauterbach dialect, but if the tag is "de-DE-lauterbach" > then even though the text is perfectly uderstandable in its written form > to many other German readers, it won't match someone's "de-DE" language > preference and so will not be shown. That is not how the language-range in HTTP works. If a user makes a specific request (e.g. de-DE-lauterbach) but the available content has a less-specific tag (de-DE), there will not be a match. If it's the other way around, though -- user makes a request (de-DE) and the available content is more specific (de-DE-lauterbach), then there *will* be a match. (Specific implementations may or may not work that way.) Peter Constable
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