Re: Chinese new official language in UK?
Just returning from vacation, so a late addition to this thread. On Fri, May 04, 2001 at 04:08:10PM +0100, Rev Simon Rumble wrote: On Fri, May 04, 2001 at 05:02:34PM +0200, Josip Rodin uttered: If you used en, it would have worked fine. sigh But of course I would prefer en-au or en-gb to en-us, you see :) Works fine now but would be helpful to fix for others in my situation. When the http spec is properly implemented (as in apache), requesting 'en-us' will not serve an 'en' page. On the other hand, requesting 'en' will serve 'en-us' if it exists (and there is no 'en' variant). This is clearly spelled out in the http spec and there is even a warning to browser authors to make it clear that country codes should only be used when really needed. So, as you have already noticed, the proper way to specify your preference is to use 'en-au, en-gb, en'. -- James (Jay) Treacy [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Chinese new official language in UK?
Rev Simon Rumble wrote: The UK mirror of the Debian site, www.uk.debian.org, has started defaulting to Chinese as its language. Weird! Hope I'm reporting this to the right place. You are, however, please check out http://www.debian.org/intro/cn Regards, Joey -- Computers are not intelligent. They only think they are. Please always Cc to me when replying to me on the lists.
Re: Chinese new official language in UK?
Rev Simon Rumble: The UK mirror of the Debian site, www.uk.debian.org, has started defaulting to Chinese as its language. No, it hasn't (just checked). If you don't tell it anything, it gives English. Please check for any misconfigured proxies, read more at http://www.debian.org/intro/cn -- \\// peter - http://www.softwolves.pp.se/ Statement concerning unsolicited e-mail according to Swedish law: http://www.softwolves.pp.se/peter/reklampost.html
Re: Chinese new official language in UK?
On Fri, May 04, 2001 at 04:29:50PM +0200, peter karlsson uttered: No, it hasn't (just checked). If you don't tell it anything, it gives English. Please check for any misconfigured proxies, read more at http://www.debian.org/intro/cn H... I'm using IE 5.5 (long story involving getting paid sigh) and the languages are set up to send en-gb as the preferential language. That's the default for Win ME when you choose that locale. Upon changing that to now be (my preference): en-au, en-gb, en, fr it works fine. It seems the language matching doesn't recognise, or gets confused by, just en-gb. I did verify this on the gllug list and two other people verified it wasn't just me and my browser. -- Rev Simon RumbleCurrent physical location: London, UK [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.rumble.net My mind is a potato field ...
Re: Chinese new official language in UK?
On Fri, May 04, 2001 at 03:39:01PM +0100, Rev Simon Rumble wrote: No, it hasn't (just checked). If you don't tell it anything, it gives English. Please check for any misconfigured proxies, read more at http://www.debian.org/intro/cn H... I'm using IE 5.5 (long story involving getting paid sigh) and the languages are set up to send en-gb as the preferential language. That's the default for Win ME when you choose that locale. Upon changing that to now be (my preference): en-au, en-gb, en, fr it works fine. It seems the language matching doesn't recognise, or gets confused by, just en-gb. I did verify this on the gllug list and two other people verified it wasn't just me and my browser. This is a known problem with how Apache handles settings that have two parts, e.g. en-gb, and those are the defaults in Internet Explorer 5.5, it seems. If you used en, it would have worked fine. sigh -- Digital Electronic Being Intended for Assassination and Nullification
Re: Chinese new official language in UK?
On Fri, May 04, 2001 at 05:02:34PM +0200, Josip Rodin uttered: If you used en, it would have worked fine. sigh But of course I would prefer en-au or en-gb to en-us, you see :) Works fine now but would be helpful to fix for others in my situation. -- Rev Simon RumbleCurrent physical location: London, UK [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.rumble.net A tall, dark stranger will have more fun than you.
Re: Chinese new official language in UK?
On Fri, May 04, 2001, Rev Simon Rumble wrote: But of course I would prefer en-au or en-gb to en-us, you see :) Works fine now but would be helpful to fix for others in my situation. I'd rather like to see that MS doesn't try to enforce new (read, their) so-called standards by using non-standard defaults for their apps *sigh* Just my 0.02 EUR Alfie -- To err is human, To purr feline. -- Robert Byrne
Re: Chinese new official language in UK?
On Fri, May 04, 2001 at 06:34:28PM +0200, Gerfried Fuchs uttered: I'd rather like to see that MS doesn't try to enforce new (read, their) so-called standards by using non-standard defaults for their apps *sigh* en-gb is a perfectly valid and standard language default. Of course not having en as a backup is a little dumb considering how few sites would publish British English versions of their sites. Still, Chinese coming up kinda surprised me. (Though someone said it was Japanese -- all Greek to me.) Mental note: check out if www.royal.gov.uk supports en-us or en-au :) -- Rev Simon RumbleCurrent physical location: London, UK [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.rumble.net For my birthday I got a humidifier and a de-humidifier... I put them in the same room and let them fight it out. -- Steven Wright
