European and American HTTP server developers Cont. Let us hope that the future HTTP standards will recognize this de facto condition and make the charset parameter mandatory for everyone. Language negotiation Language negotiation is one of the facets of content type negotiation. Several browsers and servers are already capable of handling content negotiation in general, and language negotiation in particular. Additional details can be found in an article on content negotiation on the Apache site.
Language negotiation is a great feature when navigating through multilingual sites.
The client receives the appropriate version directly, without wasting time wading through poorly understood or incomprehensible pages looking for a hyperlink to the right language. The Babel site uses it, yet offers explicit hyperlinks on most pages for those whose browser does not yet support linguistic preferences, or those who neglect to set them. The Tango Multilingual Browser will properly display all of Babel's languages. 1996, Alis Technologies inc.