Re: Language tag education and negotiation

Martin Dürst wrote about rfc-822-like-message-header 
"Accept-Language" 

>Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2008 14:25:28 +0900
>To: Asmus Freytag <asmusf@ix.netcom.com>,
>        Andrew Cunningham <andrewc@vicnet.net.au>
>From: Martin Duerst <duerst@it.aoyama.ac.jp>
>CC: www-international@w3.org
> Archived-At: <http://www.w3.org/mid/6.0.0.20.2.20080430142025.0b2154e0@localhost>


>Actually, it IS handled by the current scheme, with what's called
>q-values. Q-values are used to indicate relative preferences from
>the client side, and relative quality on the server side. So a
>server could give original documents a q value of 1.0, and translated
>documents a q-value of e.g. 0.5 (q-values are always between 1.0 and
>0.0).
>
>q-values are sent by some browsers, which translate a preference
>list of e.g. en, ja, de, fr into something like
>   en, ja;q=0.9, de;q=0.8, fr;q=0.7
>or so. Apache also understands them. But they are difficult to set
>up, so they are not really used much.

And the specification of "Accept-Language" is in rfc 3282 section 3
urn:ietf:rfc:3282 
http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3282#section-3 

There is a specification for http protocol only in 
rfc 2616 section 14.4
urn:ietf:rfc:2616
http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec14.html#sec14.4
http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2616#section-14.4


The RFC 2616 is currently updated by a working group of IETF and W3C 
http://www.ietf.org/html.charters/httpbis-charter.html
http://tools.ietf.org/wg/httpbis

If someone has bug-report or improvement about 
http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-httpbis-p3-payload-02#section-6.4
or http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-httpbis-p3-payload-02#section-3.5
( urn:ietf:draft-ietf-httpbis-p3-payload-02 section 6.4 and 3.5), 
please send feedback to the forum (wich is a mailing list) 
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/ietf-http-wg/ . 

See also 
http://www3.tools.ietf.org/wg/httpbis/trac/ticket/13
http://www3.tools.ietf.org/wg/httpbis/trac/ticket/113

Received on Sunday, 4 May 2008 17:26:19 UTC