[Zope3-dev] Job Board Example

[Lalo Martins]

On Mon, Jun 17, 2002 at 09:41:45PM -0400, Guido van Rossum wrote:
> Here's another bug.  When I specify my preferences in this order:
> 
>   en-us
>   it
>   en
>   nl
> 
> I get the Italian translation.  I would have expected to get the
> English one.

Not if the English one is specified as "en". According to the http content
negotiation spec, it's ok to serve "en-us" if the user requested "en", but
it's not ok to serve "en" if the user requested "en-us".

This rule may sound silly, but it's very convenient for languages with more
variation. For example, if I configure my browser to request "pt-br" I'm
sure to get something I can understand; "pt-pt" is a bit strange for
Brazilians and I can understand "en-us" better than "pt-pt", and it only
gets worse for the dialects of Angola and Macao.

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