| Re: FILTER_SANITIZE_NUMBER_FLOAT non/sense [message #177040 is a reply to message #177034] |
Fri, 17 February 2012 17:19   |
M. Strobel
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Am 17.02.2012 12:25, schrieb Captain Paralytic:
> On Feb 16, 5:02 pm, "M. Strobel" <sorry_no_mail_h...@nowhere.dee>
> wrote:
>> Am 16.02.2012 17:32, schrieb Thomas Mlynarczyk:
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>>> Denis McMahon schrieb:
>>>> On Thu, 16 Feb 2012 14:22:08 +0100, Thomas Mlynarczyk wrote:
>>
>>>> > On the other hand I seriously question the concept of a server side
>>>> > locale in the context of the world wide web. If locale must be, then it
>>>> > ought to be the client's locale.
>>
>>>> Perhaps, but that just means you should use the client's locale when validating
>>>> things like dates and numbers on the server. Of course this assumes you know the
>>>> client's locale.
>>
>>> True. The only reliable way to do this would be to simply ask the client and then
>>> maybe store their locale in a cookie. My point was that any "server locale" is
>>> completely useless since there is in general no reliable correlation between the
>>> server's and the client's location.
>>
>> ---cut
>>
>>> Greetings,
>>> Thomas
>>
>> That's a good point, the question about the client side locale seems to be unsolved,
>> but not discussed very often. You could use the HTTP Accept-Language header, but I
>> did not see it mentioned very often in the web.
>
> How does Language help with Locale?
>
> When I am VPNed into a server that is located in Belgium, Google keeps
> asking me if I want to switch the google I am using. I am still in the
> UK and I still want English, but the IP address from which my request
> is coming is still a Belgium one.
>
> When I am remoted into an actual machine that is in Belgium, the
> language of the machine is set to French, but I am in the UK.
>
When you are walking the street in France you must be prepared to be addressed in
French.
When you are on a french server you must read the french messages.
But anyway, we are talking about client locale in HTTP and HTML, you are talking
about remote logins.
/Str.
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