Distinguishing Greek and Greek

Michael Everson everson at evertype.com
Wed Mar 9 02:20:35 CET 2005


At 17:04 -0800 2005-03-08, Mark Davis wrote:
>I was simplifying the example, but it is also a simplification to say that
>"language matching" does X; you have to specify the domain. HTTP Accept
>language matching behaves the way you say, but it is quite common to use the
>MSFF matching rules in other areas, both for locale matching and language
>matching. For the latter, what you would typically have is a hierarchy of
>information, something like the following, with some holes.
>
>el
>   - Grkp
>          - AL
>          - GR
>          - CY
>   - Grkm
>          - AL
>          - GR
>          - CY


What you should have is no more problematic than you have for German:

de-1901
de-DE-1901
de-AT-1901
de-CH-1901
de-1996
de-DE-1996
de-AT-1996
de-CH-1996


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