Re: Charsets and language

At 08:31 99/04/26 +0100, Graham Klyne wrote:
> This post derives from an offline discussion...

> The foregoing leads me to two questions:
> (a) are registrations of features that relate to user preferences in scope
> for our registration scheme?
> (b) more specifically, is a registration of a feature for language
> preference (in the same sense as that used for HTTP "accept-language")
> appropriate?

If you do, please make sure that the behaviour with respect to
"sub-languages" is exactly the same as in HTTP (and other protocols).
There are some subtleties involved, but repeated discussion has shown
that this is the best way to do things.

I.e. if asked for "en", the server may send back "en-us" or "en-gb",
but if asked for "en-us", the server must not send back "en-gb" nor
"en", only "en-us" or "en-us-*".

Regards,   Martin.


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