Distinguishing Greek and Greek

Harald Tveit Alvestrand harald at alvestrand.no
Sun Mar 13 19:54:23 CET 2005



--On 8. mars 2005 17:04 -0800 Mark Davis <mark.davis at jtcsv.com> 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.

can you give a reference for "MSFF matching rules"?

HTTP Accept matching is a superset of the matching implied by the RFC 3066 
definition of "language-range", but this one is a new acronym for me.

                      Harald



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