* Jaime E . Villate <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2001-10-18 08:19]: > If this had been translated rather as: > "<P><A href="http://www.debian.org/index.es.html">Debian</A> es un sistema > operativo (SO) <A href="intro/free.es.html">libre</A>, para su > computadora." > > one would end up getting Spanish pages, when following the links, regardless > of browser settings.
.... and regardless of translation status, right. This proposal makes it nearly impossible to maintain the pages, because for each new translated page one would have to scan through all the other pages if there are translations available. Not to forget that maybe a translated file might be removed. If you change the scripts to address that problem we might discuss if it is a good idea - until there is no solution for that I personally would vote against changes in that direction. > Even without changing anything in the translations, when > the html pages are build links like intro/free could be substituted by > intro/free.{LANG}.html, if that page exists. Feel free to submit a patch to make this work. Could sound interesting, but please remember: Once there is a page not translated, you fall back to the english pages and will _stick_ with the english pages, unless you don't change to that in the english versions of the files. It would be a counter-work against content negotiation, e.g. for people that have something like de,fr,en or such setups. So your sugguestion might sound nice on the first glance, but would only work correct if _all_ the pages are translated - which they are not for even a single language. So long, Alfie -- You never learn anything | /"""""\ ,'~~. by doing it right. | / chaos \ alfie.ist.org |o ?~\ -- unknown | \inside!/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] /_ ~<\ | \_____/ \__,~ \>