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user3185451
user3185451

Reputation: 1

Should I set the Accept-Language header to "en-gb"?

I am currently trying to work out whether i need to set this below to the en-gb in relation to the accept language header at the top of the page?

The UK currently reads this. 

xml:lang="en" lang="en">

Would i be right in thinking this should be the following on a UK sub domain.

xml:lang="en-gb" lang="en-gb">*

Hoping to solve this, as both the UK and USA both contain the same language header which is set on EN-US when looked at through here.

http://validator.w3.org/i18n-checker/check?uri=uk.reviewanygame.com%2F#validate-by-uri+

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Upvotes: 0

Views: 2761

Answers (1)

Quentin
Quentin

Reputation: 944076

The lang attribute should describe the language the document is written in. That is all.

If you wrote it in standard English, it should be en or en-gb. If you wrote it in American English, it should be en or en-us.

This has nothing to do with the subdomain the page is hosted on.

The Accept-Language header is a request header. It is sent by the browser. It should not be "at the top of the page".

You should use it to decide which version of the document to serve if you have the same document available in multiple different languages.

It is unlikely that you have the same document written in standard and American English. The effort needed to replace (for example) every instance of colour with color is unlikely to bring any benefit.

Upvotes: 1

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