Paul Selitskas (2010-12-29 23:25):
> That's extremely the wrong way of discussion. The initial question
> was, as I suppos, if there could be created rewrite rule to change
> thrid domain name with something like '?uselang=$1'. Such a radical
> "improvement" is unnecessary.

It doesn't matter how it will be used (I mean the subdomain) 
pl.wikipedia.org means I'm going to Polish Wikipedia articles not that 
I'm using Polish interface.

> On Thu, Dec 30, 2010 at 12:16 AM, Maciej Jaros<[email protected]>  wrote:
>> DaB. (2010-12-29 22:21):
>>> Hello,
>>> At Wednesday 29 December 2010 22:10:53 DaB. wrote:
>>>> the problem is, that one wants to give consistent links to others. When
>>>> you're not able to give a link, which points to the same page (in the
>>>> same   language), thats not very user friendly I think. Of course the
>>>> header field should be used when toolserver.org or www.toolserver.org is
>>>> the host and may redirect to en.toolserver.org or de.toolserver.org
>>>> regarding to the language preferences.
>>> yes, that's the problem, but the way arround. If I give a link like
>>> http://en.toolserver.org/~auser/atool.php to another user the GUI will be in
>>> english – no matter if the user speaks english, his accept-header is english
>>> or anything.
>>> Also the way to specify the language in a third-level-domain is VERY 
>>> uncommon
>>> (wikipedia does it and a few hardware-sellers like IBM or dell) – the users
>>> are accustomed to change the first-level-domain (google.de for german 
>>> google,
>>> google.fr for french google, google.it for italian etc. pp.).
>> It's also not standard for Wikipedia. If I go to de.wikipedia.org I see
>> interface in language I've chosen in preferences (which happens to be
>> Polish). The difference is not the interface (which to my understanding
>> we are talking about), the difference is the active database. You would
>> have to add the ability to change the database and the interface
>> language anyway.
>>
>> Anyway how would it be possible to make toolserver users to use one
>> common method for i10n? There is no suggested framework there aren't
>> even any suggested templates for a page (by which I mean a common layout).
>>
>> Regards,
>> Nux.
>>
>>
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