Re: [Ltru] Public RFC 3934 warning to Jefsey

[r&d afrac <rd at afrac.org>]

At 22:05 26/09/2005, Randy Presuhn wrote:
> Hi Jefsey -
> Peter is correct that negotiation mechanisms are beyond the scope of 
> this working group,

Thank you for saying it. Full support.
jfc

At 18:08 27/08/2005, Addison Phillips wrote:
> No, this is called "language negotiation according to user 
> preferences". It is what the "q" weights in Accept-Language are for, 
> for example.
>
> There are some different examples of how this could be useful.
>
> Case #1: Consider a user who speaks both Slovenian and Italian who 
> subscribes to an RSS news feed. RSS indicates the language of an 
> article using a language tag. If the user instructs her newsreader 
> to filter the articles in the news feed, she might use this 
> Accept-Language setting:
>
> sl;q=1.0,it;q=0.8,sl-rozaj;q=0.0
>
> The lowest distance metric value for each article (when comparing to 
> each range in succession) is the weight for the article as a whole. 
> That weight can be divided by the q weight associated with that 
> range to produce the "final score". When the articles are ordered by 
> score, this produces a list in which Slovenian articles always 
> appear before Italian articles on each "level" of matching, but in 
> which articles in the Resian dialect ("sl-rozaj") never appear 
> (score is "infinity" essentially, since divide by zero is an error) 
> or at least appear at the very end.
>
> Case #2: Consider a news feed from Japan. A friend tells me that an 
> interesting English language article appeared in this particular 
> news feed, but can't remember exactly when or what it was called. I 
> can set "ja;q=0.0" to filter out all the Japanese (presumably the 
> majority of the news feed), making the article easier to find.
>
> Addison
>
> Addison P. Phillips
> Globalization Architect, Quest Software
> Chair, W3C Internationalization Core Working Group
>
> Internationalization is not a feature.
> It is an architecture.



_______________________________________________
Ltru mailing list
Ltru at ietf.org
https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ltru