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Best Practice N°187 - Level 2- Section server

Description

The server returns an indication of the main content language.

Objectives

The objectives of this best practice have not been drafted yet

Possible technical solutions:

The HTTP header Content-Language is set according to the main language of the document in the form Content-Language: en.

The syntax used is defined by the standard RFC3066 in the form:

  • of a ISO639 ;language code
  • sfollowed if necessary by a hyphen and a ISO3166 country code eg:en-CA.

The W3C covers this question in the tutorial :Specifying the language of content.

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