[Fwd]: Response to Mark's message]

Francois Yergeau FYergeau at alis.com
Wed Apr 9 14:20:14 CEST 2003


Addison Phillips wrote:
> Yesterday when discussing this in W3C-I18N-WG (WSTF), Martin 
> suggested 
> that one solution might just be to create a new RFC for locale 
> identifiers that references 3066 or 3066bis, but creates a separate 
> "referential domain".
> 
> That might be okay, but leads inexorably back to the problem 
> Mark and I sketched here the other day:
> 
> Accept-Language: ja-JP
> Accept-Locale: de-DE
> 
> Now what do I do?

"406 Not Acceptable"?

Operationnally, is there any difference of import between the above and:

Accept-Language: ja-JP
Accept: text/plain

when the Japanese version is not available in plain text?

-- 
François Yergeau


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