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Date: 24 Jan 2002 21:50:29 -0000
From: Per Nyman <pnyman@algonet.se>
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Subject: Unexpected language on displayed HTML page
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>Number:         9586
>Category:       os-windows
>Synopsis:       Unexpected language on displayed HTML page
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    apache
>State:          closed
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
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>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   apache
>Arrival-Date:   Thu Jan 24 14:00:01 PST 2002
>Closed-Date:    Sat Jan 26 10:38:23 PST 2002
>Last-Modified:  Sat Jan 26 10:38:23 PST 2002
>Originator:     pnyman@algonet.se
>Release:        1.3.22
>Organization:
>Environment:
OS: Win2K SP1
Apache install: Binary - Filename: apache_1.3.22-win32-x86.exe 
>Description:
My internet browser (IE 5) is set to use English as first choice of language, Swedish for second.

I installed Apache, started my browser and pointed to localhost - and it worked. Amazing thing was I got the index.html in Swedish when I was expecting English.

When looked at the AddLanguage in the httpd.conf, it said "AddLanguage en .en" - but the settings page in IE 5 appeared to set 'en-gb'.

I changed the AddLanguage to "AddLanguage en-gb .en" and restarted.  Now I got the page in English.  
>How-To-Repeat:

>Fix:

>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
State-Changed-From-To: open-closed
State-Changed-By: slive
State-Changed-When: Sat Jan 26 10:38:23 PST 2002
State-Changed-Why:

Apache is doing the right thing here.  It is your browser
that is misconfigured.  See, for example, 
http://ppewww.ph.gla.ac.uk/~flavell/www/lang-neg.html

Apache 2.0 will have a configuration option to deal with
misconfigured browsers, but it will not change the result
in your case.  You are telling apache that you prefer
"British English (en-uk)", then Swedish.  Since you don't request
"General English (en)", you won't get it.

Joshua.
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