bug 258246: RFC: Accept language header: 'en-gb' and matching

[Christopher Hicks]

On Sun, 12 Sep 2004, Gervase Markham wrote:
> David Miller wrote:
>> In otherwords, we can't depend on the presence of a generic "xx" to be 
>> compatible with "xx-yy"
>
> I can see why they say that, to cover their backs - but surely it is in fact 
> true in 99% of cases?

I thought the Intenet Way was to be strict in what you send and liberal in 
what you accept?

> If, as Tobias asserts, there are a bunch of misconfigured clients out 
> there sending only de-de and not de, surely this trumps the possibility 
> that someone sending pt-BR would rather have en than a generic pt?

Are German client the main problem here?  If so can't we make an exception 
for the wayward German clients and accept de-de as de and leave the rest 
as is?

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