- From: Nicolas Krebs <nicolas1.krebs3@netcourrier.com>
- Date: Sun, 4 May 2008 19:12:27 +0200
- To: www-international@w3.org
- Cc: ltru@ietf.org
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
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