- From: John Cowan <cowan@ccil.org>
- Date: Sun, 4 May 2008 20:16:54 -0400
- To: Leif Halvard Silli <lhs@malform.no>
- Cc: Martin Duerst <duerst@it.aoyama.ac.jp>, Gunnar Bittersmann <gunnar.bittersmann@web.de>, Frank Ellermann <hmdmhdfmhdjmzdtjmzdtzktdkztdjz@gmail.com>, www-international@w3.org
Leif Halvard Silli scripsit: > Let's say I was a Swiss German Language enthusiast, using Apache, with a > site in Swiss German and English. Main target audience: German > speakers, 99,99% of them without 'gsw' enabled. If you want to target German-speakers, write in Standard German. Otherwise you are in the position of someone writing in Icelandic and targeting Nynorsk users. They won't have a clue. > You may say I should not tag it as 'de', but can you say positively what > I should I do then, to reach my audience? Teach the hundred millions of > Germans how to insert 'gsw' into their browser? Don't use language negotiation, but explicit links instead. > > People in Germany (and Switzerland!), used to read German > > every day, but rarely if ever seeing or reading Swiss German, have, > > relatively speaking, much more difficulties. I'm Swiss, [...] > > I fail to see that this is a real argument against 'de-gsw'. He really really doesn't want to see gsw even if it's available, *even though* he speaks gsw natively. The fallback is worse than useless. -- Time alone is real John Cowan <cowan@ccil.org> the rest imaginary like a quaternion --phma http://www.ccil.org/~cowan
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