Question about Accept-Encoding, Accept-Charset and Accept-Language HTTP Headers sent
hgiuh ghj
Hello,
I'm studying he HTTP Headers sent by the Mozilla based browsers, please have a look at theses Headers:
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User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.15) Gecko/20080623 Firefox/2.0.0.15
Accept-Language: en-us,en;q=0.5
Accept-Charset: ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; de; rv:1.8.1.15) Gecko/20080623 Firefox/2.0.0.15
Accept-Language: de-de,de;q=0.8,en-us;q=0.5,en;q=0.3
Accept-Charset: ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; fi; rv:1.8.1.15) Gecko/20080623 Firefox/2.0.0.15
Accept-Language: fi,en;q=0.5
Accept-Charset: ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; ko; rv:1.8.1.15) Gecko/20080623 Firefox/2.0.0.15
Accept-Language: ko-kr,ko;q=0.8,en-us;q=0.5,en;q=0.3
Accept-Charset: EUC-KR,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7
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I'm trying to find the rule used to build the Accept-Language and Accept-Charset headers. First, I thought the first accept language was the 4 letters locale code, but I don't understand this line: "Accept-Language: fi,en;q=0.5", why it's just "fi" and not "fi-fi" ?
My aim is to build a code able to generate these lines assuming I have the 4 lettes locale code (en-US for instance)
Regards,
David Magnus
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Ralph Fox
hgiuh ghj wrote:
> I'm studying he HTTP Headers sent by the Mozilla based browsers,
> please have a look at theses Headers:
> Accept-Language: en-us,en;q=0.5
> Accept-Language: de-de,de;q=0.8,en-us;q=0.5,en;q=0.3
> Accept-Language: fi,en;q=0.5
> Accept-Language: ko-kr,ko;q=0.8,en-us;q=0.5,en;q=0.3
> I'm trying to find the rule used to build the Accept-Language [...]
> headers. First, I thought the first accept language was the 4 letters
> locale code, but I don't understand this line: "Accept-Language: fi,en;q=0.5",
> why it's just "fi" and not "fi-fi" ?
Get yourself a copy of Firefox 2.0.0.16, and take a look
at the settings which you can configure at
Tools » Options » Advanced » General » Languages, Choose...
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Cheers,
Ralph
hgiuh ghj
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> From: -rf-nz-@-.invalid
> Subject: Re: Question about Accept-Encoding, Accept-Charset and Accept-Language HTTP Headers sent
> Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2008 07:20:45 +1200
> To: web-develop...@lists.mozilla.org
>
> On Sat, 16 Aug 2008 16:58:00 +0000, in message ,
> hgiuh ghj wrote:
>
>> I'm studying he HTTP Headers sent by the Mozilla based browsers,
>> please have a look at theses Headers:
>
>> Accept-Language: en-us,en;q=0.5
>
>> Accept-Language: de-de,de;q=0.8,en-us;q=0.5,en;q=0.3
>
>> Accept-Language: fi,en;q=0.5
>
>> Accept-Language: ko-kr,ko;q=0.8,en-us;q=0.5,en;q=0.3
>
>> I'm trying to find the rule used to build the Accept-Language [...]
>> headers. First, I thought the first accept language was the 4 letters
>> locale code, but I don't understand this line: "Accept-Language: fi,en;q=0.5",
>> why it's just "fi" and not "fi-fi" ?
>
>
> Get yourself a copy of Firefox 2.0.0.16, and take a look
> at the settings which you can configure at
>
> Tools » Options » Advanced » General » Languages, Choose...
Thank you but that's not the point. I mean: if I change this settings, some languages will be declared as 4 letters local code (en-us, fr-fr, de-de, en-gb), however, some others will be declared as "fi,en" for instance, but not "fi-fi", "de-de", or "fr-fr". I don't understand why the 4 letters locale code of the country (fi-fi for instance) aren't always used ?
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Ralph Fox
hgiuh ghj wrote:
> >> I'm trying to find the rule used to build the Accept-Language [...]
> >> headers. First, I thought the first accept language was the 4 letters
> >> locale code, but I don't understand this line: "Accept-Language: fi,en;q=0.5",
> >> why it's just "fi" and not "fi-fi" ?
> >
> >
> > Get yourself a copy of Firefox 2.0.0.16, and take a look
> > at the settings which you can configure at
> >
> > Tools » Options » Advanced » General » Languages, Choose...
>
> Thank you but that's not the point. I mean: if I change this settings,
> some languages will be declared as 4 letters local code (en-us, fr-fr,
> de-de, en-gb), however, some others will be declared as "fi,en" for
> instance, but not "fi-fi", "de-de", or "fr-fr". I don't understand why
> the 4 letters locale code of the country (fi-fi for instance) aren't
> always used ?
It _is_ the point.
When _YOU_ adjust the settings, _YOU_ (not Firefox) choose whether to use
a language code without a country or a language code with a country.
You are the one that chooses between, for instance
en = English
en-us = English/United States
en-gb = English/United Kingdom
en-jm = English/Jamaica
BOTH forms (with and without country) are part of the international
standard language codes. Firefox does not take away _YOUR_ choice
to use one or other form.
I can set mine up like this...
first: en-nz
second: en
...and this would mean: if the website has a 'New Zealand English' version
of the page, give that to me, otherwise give me the website's 'generic'
English version (in preference to, say, French or Bulgarian).
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Cheers,
Ralph