Re: Language subtags (aliases)

From: Henrik Nordstrom <henrik_at_henriknordstrom.net>
Date: Sat, 08 Aug 2009 00:50:29 +0200

fre 2009-08-07 klockan 16:27 +1200 skrev Amos Jeffries:

> Huh? I think you misunderstand what these alias lists do.
> They are the seed maps for make install to generate such symlinks from.

Oh, I thougt we loaded them.. oh well.. probably we should but that's
another question.

> The upgrade from this will be to follow the RFC recommendation of
> silently assuming xx-yy and xx-zzz-yy maps to xx, and falling back to
> the first available such map if no more specifics exist in the entire
> string.

Good.

> The nl, pt and zh cases are the only ones we have so far that require
> the alias solution long-term. "Accept-Languages: pt-pt,pt-br" should not
> have pt-br provided by default when pt is present for example. The zh-*
> family is worst-case.

There is a couple of others as well where the base language is also
known by other codes. Not sure we have any however..

Regards
Henrik
Received on Fri Aug 07 2009 - 22:50:26 MDT

This archive was generated by hypermail 2.2.0 : Sat Aug 08 2009 - 12:00:03 MDT