Re: Re: Newbie asks about multi-lingual website strategies

From:	tedd	Date:	Wed, 28 Nov 2007 13:21:02 +0000
Subject:	Re: Re: Newbie asks about multi-lingual website strategies
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At 12:56 AM +0100 11/28/07, Jochem Maas wrote:

Colin Guthrie wrote:
tedd wrote:
... Sorry Tedd, but I'm not sure where the browser sniffing stuff came in.
IE and FF both offer a UI to input the user's preferred language, it's an HTTP standard thing and nothign to do with user agents string parsing. It uses the Accept-Language header sent with http requests to detect the language. It's quite standard but problems usually crop up in e.g. Australia and the UK where a lot of people leave the default en-US language when en-GB or en-AU would be better. Again it's not infallible but it's a fairly good starting point.
ditto.

So, sniffing the browser to determine language isn't the same as browser sniffing -- OK. Sorry, my bad. Cheers, tedd -- ------- http://sperling.com http://ancientstones.com http://earthstones.com