[rt-devel] fsck.com RT instance Upgraded to 2.1.68

[Andrew Snare]

At 10:39 AM 6/02/2003 +0100, Harald Wagener wrote:
>>if you go to fsck.com/rt2/ where the instance used to live,
>>you'll be redirected to rt3.fsck.com, its new home.
>
>When I do that with a web browser identified by the following string:
>
>"Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X; de-de) AppleWebKit/51
>(like Gecko) Safari/51"
>
>I get some asian looking login screen. The web pages are not german at all 
>as well, being a mix of misrendered utf8 characters (not Your fault) and 
>english.
>
>I guess the /de-de/ is not standards compliant.

The de-de in the version string should be irrelevant since for language 
purposes it should be using the HTTP-Accept-Language header your browser 
sends. I think this is broken in RT, however. I noticed this problem in an 
early release of the 2.1 but didn't have time to investigate.

At any rate, my HTTP-Accept-Language header is:
         HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE=en-au, en;q=0.66, nl;q=0.33

When I aim this at <http://rt3.fsck.com/> I get a Dutch page, despite the 
fact that English is listed as preferable. If I yank Dutch from the end of 
the list, I get an English page (as expected). Hence I think there's a 
problem with the auto-language detection in RT3.

It's commendable that RT is trying to do the right thing here. One of my 
pet hates is web i18n that ignores what your browser says about your 
language preferences.

Cheers,

  - Andrew