Re: [PATCH 0/1] Filter C and POSIX out of Accept-Language

From: Collin Funk <collin.funk1@gmail.com>
Date: Jul 10, 2025, 23:26 UTC
Message-ID: <m1h5zjk4pv.fsf@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <aHBH0nRLPxBg2HAj@fruit.crustytoothpaste.net>

"brian m. carlson" <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net> writes:

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> I'm not aware of it causing any practical problems for people, although
> I could imagine some cases where it could, in theory, break things.  I
> merely noticed this in trace output and thought we should tidy it up.
> If users are using the header and expecting a localized response, this
> will make it more likely that they get the one they were expecting.

I feel like it is a bit strange to only exclude "C" or "POSIX".

I think the correct behavior would be to accept any values, or convert the current locale to the closest BCP 47 language tag.

But as you mentioned converting them would require a database of all tags...

Collin