From apwww@hyperreal.org Fri Sep 19 13:50:34 1997 Received: (from apwww@localhost) by hyperreal.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id NAA16021; Fri, 19 Sep 1997 13:50:34 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199709192050.NAA16021@hyperreal.org> Date: Fri, 19 Sep 1997 13:50:34 -0700 (PDT) From: Jose KAHAN Reply-To: kahan@w3.org To: apbugs@hyperreal.org Subject: Suggestion: Default language for LanNeg X-Send-Pr-Version: 3.2 >Number: 1180 >Category: mod_mime >Synopsis: Suggestion: Default language for LanNeg >Confidential: no >Severity: non-critical >Priority: medium >Responsible: apache >State: closed >Class: change-request >Submitter-Id: apache >Arrival-Date: Mon Sep 29 15:10:03 1997 >Last-Modified: Tue Dec 29 17:03:53 PST 1998 >Originator: kahan@w3.org >Organization: >Release: 1.2.4 >Environment: SunOS 5.5 Generic sun4u sparc SUNW,Ultra-1 >Description: A request for a default language directive ========================================== Problem description =================== Some months ago, Keio University (Japan), joined the W3C staff. This brought up the problem of multilingual documents; for example, their minutes are published in both English and Japanese. While configuring our Apache server to do language negotiation, we noticed that there's no default language. Documents must explicity include a suffix stating the language in which they are written. For example: AddLanguage en en AddLanguage ja ja and with documents mydoc.html.en, mydoc.html.ja. In practice, this is really quite painful to set up. We have thousands of documents already written in English. Adding a suffix to them will probably take too much time. >How-To-Repeat: >Fix: SUGGESTION ========== We would like Apache to have a default language directive. Something like: DefaultLanguage en which will specify the language for those documents not having an explicit language suffix. We believe this will greatly ease the reuse of legacy data. We hope you can consider adding this feature in a future release of Apache. Best greetings, -Jose Kahan, on behalf of w3c's webmaster team kahan@w3.org %0 >Audit-Trail: State-Changed-From-To: open-closed State-Changed-By: Lars.Eilebrecht@unix-ag.org State-Changed-When: Tue Sep 30 04:44:53 PDT 1997 State-Changed-Why: It looks like you missed the LanguagePriority directive. See http://www.apache.org/docs/mod/mod_negotiation.html#languagepriority for details. State-Changed-From-To: closed-suspended State-Changed-By: dgaudet State-Changed-When: Tue Sep 30 10:16:50 PDT 1997 State-Changed-Why: Actually we don't support what he's asking for -- the ability to set the language for a file that doesn't have a language extension. LanguagePriority is used to set the priority for a request that doesn't include an Accept-Language header. 1.2 is in feature freeze, and 1.3 has just entered it because we're beginning a beta cycle. So it'll have to wait for now. Dean From: Dean Gaudet To: jose.kahan@w3.org Cc: apbugs@apache.org, kahan@w3.org Subject: Re: general/1180: Suggestion: Default language for LanNeg Date: Tue, 14 Oct 1997 12:20:30 -0700 (PDT) You that's why it's marked suspended and not closed... but I can understand your confusion with GNATS' rather cryptic output below. FWIW, it'd be really trivial to write a module to do this. It doesn't necessarily have to be part of the standard distribution. Dean On Tue, 14 Oct 1997 jose.kahan@w3.org wrote: > Lars and Dean, > > Thanks for your messages concerning our lanneg proposition. > It's a pity this feature can't make it into the release. > > Is it possible a record of our request be kept open so that it be > considered in forthcoming releases? > > We think that having a default language feature is a fast way to > introduce I18N into web servers which have a large legacy document base. > > Best regards, > > -Jose Kahan, on behalf of the w3c web team > > In our previous episode, dgaudet@hyperreal.org said: > > > > Synopsis: Suggestion: Default language for LanNeg > > > > State-Changed-From-To: closed-suspended > > State-Changed-By: dgaudet > > State-Changed-When: Tue Sep 30 10:16:50 PDT 1997 > > State-Changed-Why: > > Actually we don't support what he's asking for -- the ability > > to set the language for a file that doesn't have a language > > extension. LanguagePriority is used to set the priority for a > > request that doesn't include an Accept-Language header. > > > > 1.2 is in feature freeze, and 1.3 has just entered it because > > we're beginning a beta cycle. So it'll have to wait for now. > State-Changed-From-To: suspended-closed State-Changed-By: lars State-Changed-When: Tue Dec 29 17:03:52 PST 1998 State-Changed-Why: A DefaultLanguage directive has been added to Apache and will be available in Version 1.3.4. Category-Changed-From-To: general-mod_mime Category-Changed-By: lars Category-Changed-When: Tue Dec 29 17:03:52 PST 1998 >Unformatted: