That's extremely the wrong way of discussion. The initial question was, as I suppos, if there could be created rewrite rule to change thrid domain name with something like '?uselang=$1'. Such a radical "improvement" is unnecessary.
On Thu, Dec 30, 2010 at 12:16 AM, Maciej Jaros egil@wp.pl wrote:
DaB. (2010-12-29 22:21):
Hello, At Wednesday 29 December 2010 22:10:53 DaB. wrote:
the problem is, that one wants to give consistent links to others. When you're not able to give a link, which points to the same page (in the same language), thats not very user friendly I think. Of course the header field should be used when toolserver.org or www.toolserver.org is the host and may redirect to en.toolserver.org or de.toolserver.org regarding to the language preferences.
yes, that's the problem, but the way arround. If I give a link like http://en.toolserver.org/~auser/atool.php to another user the GUI will be in english – no matter if the user speaks english, his accept-header is english or anything. Also the way to specify the language in a third-level-domain is VERY uncommon (wikipedia does it and a few hardware-sellers like IBM or dell) – the users are accustomed to change the first-level-domain (google.de for german google, google.fr for french google, google.it for italian etc. pp.).
It's also not standard for Wikipedia. If I go to de.wikipedia.org I see interface in language I've chosen in preferences (which happens to be Polish). The difference is not the interface (which to my understanding we are talking about), the difference is the active database. You would have to add the ability to change the database and the interface language anyway.
Anyway how would it be possible to make toolserver users to use one common method for i10n? There is no suggested framework there aren't even any suggested templates for a page (by which I mean a common layout).
Regards, Nux.
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