Re: Re: Newbie asks about multi-lingual website strategies

tedd wrote: > At 3:01 PM +0100 11/28/07, Jochem Maas wrote: ... > Jochem: > > This just hasn't been my week -- everyone (long story) thinks I'm being > sarcastic when I'm not. ouch! > > The "Sorry, my bad" means "I apologize, my mistake." How can that be > taken as sarcasm? guess it's down to my input filters ;-) not to worry, no feelings were hurt in the process. > > As for being "hung-up" -- again, I'm clueless. I mistakenly thought that > anything obtained from the browser was subject to suspicion as is any > outside data. But apparently you can "trust" (I realize within certain > limits) some things provided by the browser -- that's news to me. your right about the trust issue but I don't think trust is the point in this case. looking at what the browser offered as accepted languages is merely a way of trying to be helpful - you still have to parse the relevant header in a safe way. > > Boy, I got to work on my communication skills because everyone can't be > wrong, right? let's be positive, next week it will be better! > > Again, thanks for your explanation -- and that's not being sarcastic. > I'm just trying to communicate without offending/annoying anyone. Maybe > I should end every line with a smiley? :-) dunno about that smiley, it might become annoying ;-) > > Cheers, > > tedd >