Re: How to do i18n better?

Ashley Sheridan wrote: > On Tue, 2010-04-20 at 20:27 +0200, Per Jessen wrote: > >> Ashley Sheridan wrote: >> >> > That's the check I did on the last site i worked on (vicestyle.com) >> > The user agent string is checked for a language and the site uses >> > that. If none is found (bearing in mind that there's no hard and >> > fast rule about what can go into a UA string) then it defaults to >> > English. >> >> The language preference is not set in the UA string, it is set in the >> Accept-Language header along with the priority. >> >> [snip] > > > I wasn't aware of that one, but I know most browsers send a language > with part of the UA string > > Thanks, > Ash Accept-Language, the 'prefer-language' cookie, the various apache config options etc. are all part of the Apache content-negotiation setup/framework. On our website(s), I rely entirely on Accept-Language. In the very rare case where it isn't set, I set a default based on the IP-address of the client. -- Per Jessen, Zürich (8.4°C)