Re: Language subtags (aliases)

From: Henrik Nordstrom <henrik_at_henriknordstrom.net>
Date: Wed, 05 Aug 2009 16:08:08 +0200

ons 2009-08-05 klockan 21:54 +1200 skrev Amos Jeffries:

> Right now it's to improve the performance of the negotiation, each
> detected but failed language requires disk IO.

Right. it is reading the error page from disk each time. Forgot that
little detail..

> When sub-tag negotiation is reliably doable we can reduce the aliases to
> just the weird exceptions.

Or symlink them, except that symlinks do not work on Windows...

> I know. And when browsers really start using this widely we will _need_
> the sub-tag negotiation. For now its not appearing to be that common.

We have already seen the evolution from just language to language +
region.

Regards
Henrik
Received on Wed Aug 05 2009 - 14:08:42 MDT

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