The www.uk.debian.org page defaults to a Chinese language version; as the default installation of internet explorer is broken with regards to content negotiation (the default install only sends language-country; e.g. my copy only sent by default "en-US" not "en-US" and "en"), this means that many people visiting the site in the UK will not get a page in the language generally accepted for things originating from the UK.
This most certainly violates the principle of least surprise. I will note that www.debian.org defaults to English across the entire site. www.it.debian.org comes up with the front page in Finnish but the contact page in Chinese. Perhaps the server is choosing the smallest page? I would strongly suggest that either each server named by www.[country code].debian.org default to (one of) the predominant language(s) in the country in question or, at the very least, that a common default language be set across all *.debian.org servers. The behavior of the Italian server is truly surprising to anyone not used to content negotiation bugs. Perhaps a nit to Microsoft about their broken default install would also be in order. I wonder where one would send that. ------- Daniel Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Fame Information Services (US) 609-520-9099 x170
