Re: New deb mother tongue (CN problem)

2002-10-04 Thread Robin Rowe
James, > You need to specify the url(s) used. Most, but not all, of the Debian > pages should handle en-us and en-gb just as en (due to the symlinks > Josip mentioned). Other variants, such as en-ca (alone with no valid > secondary choice) will return the smallest variant. It was random luck > tha

Re: New deb mother tongue (CN problem)

2002-10-03 Thread Robin Rowe
Josip, > Oh, it works for en-us and en-gb because we worked around it (we added > symlinks for all files). It doesn't work for other en-* variants, see this: > > % wget -q --header="Accept-Language: en-us, fr" -O - www.debian.org | grep lang= > > > % wget -q --header="Accept-Language: en-ca, fr"

Re: New deb mother tongue (CN problem)

2002-10-03 Thread Robin Rowe
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Re: New deb mother tongue - progress

2002-09-07 Thread Robin Rowe
Josip, FYI, a quick progress report on the Apache Content-Negotiation language fix-up. I've looked at the Apache code. The relevant file is src/modules/standard/mod_negotiation.c. Code already exists there to try to match on the nearest language variant when an exact match isn't found. If it isn'

Re: New deb mother tongue - proposed solution

2002-08-24 Thread Robin Rowe
Josip, > Take a look at what the maintainers of Apache said, in > http://bugs.debian.org/157734 Interesting, but doesn't change my plan. > Our settings are described in http://www.debian.org/mirror/webmirror Thank you. Cheers, Robin ---

Re: New deb mother tongue - proposed solution

2002-08-24 Thread Robin Rowe
Josip, I've done some research for the language CN patch and so far so good. I have also heard from a volunteer to do coding, but it is someone I haven't worked with before. If progress hasn't been made in a few weeks I can do the coding myself. I'm busy now and couldn't get to it before then anyw

Re: New deb mother tongue - proposed solution

2002-08-17 Thread Robin Rowe
Josip, Ok, thanks for your help. Let's proceed. I'll see who I can find to volunteer to help with the coding. If that doesn't work out I will write it by myself. Will get back to you within a week with a more specific plan. Cheers, Robin

Re: New deb mother tongue - proposed solution

2002-08-17 Thread Robin Rowe
www.OpenSourceProgrammers.org - Original Message - From: "Josip Rodin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Robin Rowe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Sent: Saturday, August 17, 2002 11:37 AM Subject: Re: New deb mother tongue - proposed solution > On Sat, Aug 17, 2002 at

Re: New deb mother tongue - proposed solution

2002-08-17 Thread Robin Rowe
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Re: New deb mother tongue - proposed solution

2002-08-17 Thread Robin Rowe
Josip, > http://www.debian.org/intro/organization Thanks, I should have found that. I searched instead on the word "webmaster" which isn't anywhere. I need to know who the sysadmin will be who we are working with. Can you have someone named on the sysadmin list chime in to volunteer to be our le

Re: New deb mother tongue - proposed solution

2002-08-17 Thread Robin Rowe
Josip, > http://www.debian.org/intro/organization Thanks, I should have found that. I searched instead on the word "webmaster" which isn't anywhere. I need to know who the sysadmin will be who we are working with. Can you have someone named on the sysadmin list chime in to volunteer to be our le

Re: New deb mother tongue - proposed solution

2002-08-16 Thread Robin Rowe
to get installed and tested. --- www.LinuxMovies.org http://filmgimp.sourceforge.net www.OpenSourceProgrammers.org - Original Message - From: "Josip Rodin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Robin Rowe" &l

Re: New deb mother tongue - proposed solution

2002-08-16 Thread Robin Rowe
Josip, > Word has it, apache 1.3 CN code was hairy. Combine that with general > laziness, and you get no volunteers :) Nobody from debian.org has stepped up to say he will install and test the fix if somebody else would provide a patch. Until that happens, there's no point in me or anyone volunte

Re: New deb mother tongue - proposed solution

2002-08-15 Thread Robin Rowe
Alfie, > Because debian.org is more or less the only site that uses > Content-Negotiation. There aren't many pages that use that feature, > unfortunately. If there were, we wouldn't have to answer the same > boring questions over and over again :-( If the IE browser adds * to en-us when request

Re: New deb mother tongue?

2002-08-15 Thread Robin Rowe
Peter, >Explanation: A server that receives a request for a document with a >preferred language of 'en-GB, fr' will not serve the English ('en') >version before the French version. That makes sense, but I don't see how anyone would read into that to expect it to return Portugese when

Re: New deb mother tongue?

2002-08-14 Thread Robin Rowe
Alfie, > The question is why you were not reading the site that Kaare sugguested > you to read: . That page > *describes* how Content-Negotiation works and why en-us doesn't work > like you would expect it. That Web page says, "You should set the preferred