On Sun, Aug 19, 2001 at 11:24:19AM -0700, Marc Slemko wrote:
> Error
> pages are also often shown in... well... error conditions, and the
> overhead of having a large number of varients could get to be quite
> significant if there is a high traffic volume.
OTOH they *might* be especially useful in these situations, even if
the site has (almost?) no other file(s) in the requester's language.
I don't have any chinese files on my server, but if a chinese reader
requests a file which he does has no right to access, he would be
happy to see a chinese error telling hime so.
But I totally agree with the reluctance performance-wise.
> I'm not trying to discourage internationalization of docs or the
> work people have done, but think we have to be careful to keep
> things in perspective and not loose sight of what users actually
> want and need...
Based on the note I wrote for the apache manual pages a couple of
years ago, I still often get feedback from apache users who actually
use the feature, and would like a more obvious and easy interface
to take advantage of it.
Martin
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