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Modified: htdocs/manual/mod mod_mime.html Log: Actually, without a DefaultLanguage documents are considered to have _no_ language attribute. Apache does not default to English. Revision Changes Path 1.27 +16 -7 apache-1.3/htdocs/manual/mod/mod_mime.html Index: mod_mime.html =================================================================== RCS file: /export/home/cvs/apache-1.3/htdocs/manual/mod/mod_mime.html,v retrieving revision 1.26 retrieving revision 1.27 diff -u -r1.26 -r1.27 --- mod_mime.html 1998/12/02 03:45:51 1.26 +++ mod_mime.html 1998/12/02 17:01:26 1.27 @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2 Final//EN"> +!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2 Final//EN"> <HTML> <HEAD> <TITLE>Apache module mod_mime</TITLE> @@ -324,12 +324,21 @@ The DefaultLanguage directive tells Apache that all files in the directive's scope (<EM>e.g.</EM>, all files covered by the current -<CODE><Directory></CODE> container) that don't have an explicit language -extension (such as <SAMP>.fr</SAMP> or <SAMP>.de</SAMP>) should be -considered to be the specified <EM>MIME-lang</EM> language -by default, rather than English. This allows entire directories -to be marked as containing Dutch content, for instance, without -having to rename each file. +<CODE><Directory></CODE> container) that don't have an explicit +language extension (such as <SAMP>.fr</SAMP> or <SAMP>.de</SAMP> as +configured by <SAMP>AddLanguage</SAMP>) should be considered to be in +the specified <EM>MIME-lang</EM> language. This allows entire +directories to be marked as containing Dutch content, for instance, +without having to rename each file. Note that unlike using extensions +to specify languages, <SAMP>DefaultLanguage</SAMP> can only specify a +single language. + +<P> + +If no <SAMP>DefaultLanguage</SAMP> directive is in force, and a file +does not have any language extensions as configured by +<SAMP>AddLanguage</SAMP>, then that file will be considered to have no +language attribute. <P>
