On Mon, 29 Jan 2001, Joshua Slive wrote:

> On Mon, 29 Jan 2001, Chris Pepper wrote:
> >     A DefaultLanguage directive (defaulting to en), specifying
> > the preferred language(s) for browsers that don't specify their own
> > preference, seems like the right way to do it.
> 
> Thanks for the feedback Chris and James.  I don't disagree with the
> conclusion.  I should point out, to avoid confusion, that Apache does
> have a DefaultLanguage directive, but it DOES NOT do what we want. 

Yes - I remembered seeing it somewhere, but not doing this :-(

> It just specifies the language associated with all non-specified
> files.  What we want is a directive that will indicate what file to
> send when no acceptable variants are found.

Yes... FallbackLanguage??

> I get the feeling, however, that we are all talking about something that
> we really don't know much about.  I wish we had some real language
> negotation experts here.

Apparently there are some on new-httpd; CC-ed there in case they can help.


James.

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