On 4/3/2012 3:59 PM, Philippe Verdy wrote:
Yes but HTTP headers are still not part of the page content itself. It
is unrelated and only needed for the HTTP protocol and management of
caches inclding in proxies. Those headers are by definition not
translatable by the server. Only the brower may
Yes but there ware sevral replies speaking about HTTP headers (the
first one from Juka Korpela). Which are unrelated. This was a
necessary clarification. The HTTP protocol itself is not concerned by
localisation of the headers related to the management of caches and
conditional requests to refresh
On 4/4/2012 2:01 PM, Philippe Verdy wrote:
.. there are good reasons why a date displayed in a page could
be formatted differently from other dates in the same page, when they
are in fact part of different contents each one using its language.
Multilingual pages are frequent, and this is why we
I was amused to see Klingon on the
http://www.unicode.org/versions/Unicode6.1.0/ page ;-)
Yes, I realize it’s primarily me and maybe a few other geeks, but I still
smiled.
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2012-04-03 19:03, Shawn Steele wrote:
I was amused to see Klingon on the
http://www.unicode.org/versions/Unicode6.1.0/ page ;-)
Yes, I realize it’s primarily me and maybe a few other geeks, but I
still smiled.
On the other hand, it sets a bad example: an illogical mix of language,
with all
Of Philippe Verdy
Sent: Tuesday, April 3, 2012 9:40 AM
To: Shawn Steele
Cc: unicode@unicode.org
Subject: Re: Klingon on Unicode site?
When was that published on the Unicode website ? On April 1st ?
Le 3 avril 2012 18:03, Shawn Steele
shawn.ste...@microsoft.commailto:shawn.ste...@microsoft.com a écrit
When was that published on the Unicode website ? On April 1st ?
Le 3 avril 2012 18:03, Shawn Steele shawn.ste...@microsoft.com a écrit :
I was amused to see Klingon on the
http://www.unicode.org/versions/Unicode6.1.0/ page ;-)
** **
Yes, I realize it’s primarily me and maybe a few
On 4/3/2012 9:51 AM, Shawn Steele wrote:
My assumption is the page uses JS to get the dates? Since my user
locale happened to be set to Klingon, that’s what it displayed.
Exactly. There is a call to:
Date(document.lastModified).toLocaleString() in the Javascript.
So for those who assumed
On 4/3/2012 11:14 AM, Ken Whistler wrote:
On 4/3/2012 9:51 AM, Shawn Steele wrote:
My assumption is the page uses JS to get the dates? Since my user
locale happened to be set to Klingon, that’s what it displayed.
Exactly. There is a call to:
Date(document.lastModified).toLocaleString() in
When the document is in English, it doesn't make sens to display the footer
date in the system locale.
The locale used for this function should either be that of site, or that of
the page.
After all we wouldn’t want a Unicode page to appear like it got contaminated
with Klingon ;-)
-Shawn
Asmus opined:
I think Yucca has a point.
When the document is in English, it doesn't make sens to display the footer
date in the system locale.
The locale used for this function should either be that of site, or that of the
page.
AP And hence the work to internationalize JavaScript and
Le 3 avril 2012 21:28, Phillips, Addison addi...@lab126.com a écrit :
Asmus opined:
I think Yucca has a point.
When the document is in English, it doesn't make sens to display the footer
date in the system locale.
The locale used for this function should either be that of site, or that of
: Re: Klingon on Unicode site?
2012-04-03 19:03, Shawn Steele wrote:
I was amused to see Klingon on the
http://www.unicode.org/versions/Unicode6.1.0/ page ;-)
Yes, I realize it’s primarily me and maybe a few other geeks, but I
still smiled.
On the other hand, it sets a bad example
The Last-Modified' header of HTTP is not supposed to be translated,
it has a documented format independant of the locale used by the
server, by the browser, or prefered by the user and configured in its
browser settings or in his personnal account of the website.
It is an hidden ***protocol
On 4/3/2012 1:49 PM, Elsebeth Flarup wrote:
If the visible display of the value of the Last-Modified header
(which may or may not reflect the actual last modification time) is
regarded as useful, it should of course be in the same language as the
rest of the page.
I completely disagree.
Yes but HTTP headers are still not part of the page content itself. It
is unrelated and only needed for the HTTP protocol and management of
caches inclding in proxies. Those headers are by definition not
translatable by the server. Only the brower may opt to display these
headers outside of the
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