changeset 60861:ed7e8235f78d

(HTTP language/coding): Improve last change.
author Richard M. Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
date Wed, 23 Mar 2005 14:46:53 +0000
parents c218b809efea
children a5747a6af714
files man/url.texi
diffstat 1 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) [+]
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--- a/man/url.texi	Wed Mar 23 14:46:18 2005 +0000
+++ b/man/url.texi	Wed Mar 23 14:46:53 2005 +0000
@@ -319,10 +319,14 @@
 HTTP allows clients to express preferences for the language and
 encoding of documents which servers may honour.  For each of these
 variables, the value is a string; it can specify a single choice, or
-it can be a comma-separated list in descending order of preference.
-Each element can be followed by @samp{;q=@var{priority}} to specify
-its preference level; e.g., for @code{url-mime-language-string},
-@w{@code{"de, en-gb;q=0.8, en;q=0.7"}}.
+it can be a comma-separated list.
+
+Normally this list ordered by descending preference.  However, each
+element can be followed by @samp{;q=@var{priority}} to specify its
+preference level, a decimal number from 0 to 1; e.g., for
+@code{url-mime-language-string}, @w{@code{"de, en-gb;q=0.8,
+en;q=0.7"}}.  An element that has no @samp{;q} specification has
+preference level 1.
 
 @defopt url-mime-charset-string
 @cindex character sets