Re: Re: Question about development

On Tue, February 12, 2008 3:32 pm, Jason Pruim wrote: > > On Feb 12, 2008, at 4:24 PM, Daniel Brown wrote: > >> On Feb 12, 2008 2:53 PM, Nathan Rixham <nrixham@gmail.com> wrote: >>> Browsers generally send the the HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE header in a >>> request. >>> >>> $_SERVER[HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE] => en-gb,en;q=0.5 >>> >>> thus with mine, preference is en-gb, failing that anything en; >>> failing >>> that whatever you've got. >>> >>> ACCEPT_CHARSET is worth a check often aswell; finally POST requests >>> can >>> also have a CONTENT_LANGUAGE specified which describes the lang of >>> the >>> content. >> >> Yes, but as has been said in the past, you can't rely on browser >> headers, because they can easily be forged. ;-P >> >> I can see it now.... >> >> "That'll mess with them. Now they'll think I'm Mexican!" > > > Which goes back to giving them an easy way of changing the display > language :P If someone intentionally messes with the language headers > they deserve to get a language they may or may not know! :P I was at an internet cafe in Paris once. Despite having a French keyboard layout and a browser sending fr as my preferred language, my French language skills were no better than when I walked in... :-) -- Some people have a "gift" link here. Know what I want? I want you to buy a CD from some indie artist. http://cdbaby.com/from/lynch Yeah, I get a buck. So?