<code>welcome.fr.html</code> will map onto exactly the same information.
If more than one extension is given which maps onto the same
type of meta-information, then the one to the right will be
- used. For example, if <code>.gif</code> maps to the MIME-type
- <code>image/gif</code> and <code>.html</code> maps to the MIME-type
- <code>text/html</code>, then the file <code>welcome.gif.html</code>
- will be associated with the MIME-type <code>text/html</code>.</p>
+ used, except for languages and content encodings. For example, if
+ <code>.gif</code> maps to the MIME-type <code>image/gif</code> and
+ <code>.html</code> maps to the MIME-type <code>text/html</code>, then the
+ file <code>welcome.gif.html</code> will be associated with the MIME-type
+ <code>text/html</code>.</p>
+
+ <p><a href="#charset-lang">Languages</a> and <a href="#contentencoding">content encodings</a> are treated accumulative, because one can assign
+ more than one language or encoding to a particular ressource. For example,
+ the file <code>welcome.html.en.de</code> will be delivered with
+ <code>Content-Language: en, de</code> and <code>Content-Type:
+ text/html</code>.</p>
<p>Care should be taken when a file with multiple extensions
gets associated with both a MIME-type and a handler. This will
<code>.doc</code> extension is associated with the Microsoft
Word file type, and the <code>.zip</code> extension is
associated with the pkzip file encoding, then the file
- <code>Resume.doc.zip</code>would be known to be a pkzip'ed Word
+ <code>Resume.doc.zip</code> would be known to be a pkzip'ed Word
document.</p>
<p>Apache sends a <code>Content-encoding</code> header with the
<code>welcome.fr.html</code> will map onto exactly the same information.
If more than one extension is given which maps onto the same
type of meta-information, then the one to the right will be
- used. For example, if <code>.gif</code> maps to the MIME-type
- <code>image/gif</code> and <code>.html</code> maps to the MIME-type
- <code>text/html</code>, then the file <code>welcome.gif.html</code>
- will be associated with the MIME-type <code>text/html</code>.</p>
+ used, except for languages and content encodings. For example, if
+ <code>.gif</code> maps to the MIME-type <code>image/gif</code> and
+ <code>.html</code> maps to the MIME-type <code>text/html</code>, then the
+ file <code>welcome.gif.html</code> will be associated with the MIME-type
+ <code>text/html</code>.</p>
+
+ <p><a href="#charset-lang">Languages</a> and <a href="#contentencoding"
+ >content encodings</a> are treated accumulative, because one can assign
+ more than one language or encoding to a particular ressource. For example,
+ the file <code>welcome.html.en.de</code> will be delivered with
+ <code>Content-Language: en, de</code> and <code>Content-Type:
+ text/html</code>.</p>
<p>Care should be taken when a file with multiple extensions
gets associated with both a MIME-type and a handler. This will
<code>.doc</code> extension is associated with the Microsoft
Word file type, and the <code>.zip</code> extension is
associated with the pkzip file encoding, then the file
- <code>Resume.doc.zip</code>would be known to be a pkzip'ed Word
+ <code>Resume.doc.zip</code> would be known to be a pkzip'ed Word
document.</p>
<p>Apache sends a <code>Content-encoding</code> header with the