- From: Leif Halvard Silli <lhs@malform.no>
- Date: Mon, 05 May 2008 02:57:42 +0200
- To: John Cowan <cowan@ccil.org>
- CC: Martin Duerst <duerst@it.aoyama.ac.jp>, Gunnar Bittersmann <gunnar.bittersmann@web.de>, Frank Ellermann <hmdmhdfmhdjmzdtjmzdtzktdkztdjz@gmail.com>, www-international@w3.org
John Cowan 2008-05-05 02.16: > 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. > That comparsion does't hold water for a second. > > 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. > All language negotation seems to require a direct link fallback. > > > 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. > I assume that he is interested if he visits my web site. -- leif halvard silli
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