I think IE7 is going to break language negotiation on many servers

FYI

http://people.w3.org/rishida/blog/?p=68

"The IE7 blog just announced Microsoft's intention to change the way browser preferences for Accept-language are set up by default. Basically your preferences will no longer, by default, be set to fr if you’re French, but to fr-FR instead, ie. your locale as determined by Windows settings.

I think this is going to cause major problems with content negotiation on the Web.

To give a practical example: ..."



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Received on Wednesday, 18 October 2006 15:25:11 UTC