[XHTML?] Automatically serving up documents with proper language - Tilted Forum Project Discussion Community

RelaX · 02-10-2005, 02:46 PM

Okay, so how do you do this?
I mean, a few times I have browsed to a webpage and it somehow automatically detects that my environement is Dutch, so it hands me a Dutch page.
Is there some API for browsers that allow you to check the language setting of the browser or something? I've had it happen on IE and on FireFox.
I would love to read more about this stuff.

noodles · 02-10-2005, 03:38 PM

you can do it in pretty much any programming language, from javascript to php. its a browser information thing that can be accessed. whatever your browser is set for, the page can redirect you to the proper language.

RelaX · 02-11-2005, 02:34 AM

You mean via the Accept-language header (I just found that through google)?
Is that the only way?
Aren't there also some ip-to-country tools out there, anyone have any experience with them?

02-10-2005, 02:46 PM	#1 (permalink)
RelaX Follower of Ner'Zhul Location: Netherlands	[XHTML?] Automatically serving up documents with proper language Okay, so how do you do this? I mean, a few times I have browsed to a webpage and it somehow automatically detects that my environement is Dutch, so it hands me a Dutch page. Is there some API for browsers that allow you to check the language setting of the browser or something? I've had it happen on IE and on FireFox. I would love to read more about this stuff. __________________ The most likely way for the world to be destroyed, most experts agree, is by accident. That's where we come in; we're computer professionals. We cause accidents. - Nathaniel Borenstein

02-10-2005, 03:38 PM	#2 (permalink)
noodles Psycho Location: sc	you can do it in pretty much any programming language, from javascript to php. its a browser information thing that can be accessed. whatever your browser is set for, the page can redirect you to the proper language. __________________ This is what is hardest: to close the open hand because one loves. Nietzsche

02-11-2005, 02:34 AM	#3 (permalink)
RelaX Follower of Ner'Zhul Location: Netherlands	You mean via the Accept-language header (I just found that through google)? Is that the only way? Aren't there also some ip-to-country tools out there, anyone have any experience with them? __________________ The most likely way for the world to be destroyed, most experts agree, is by accident. That's where we come in; we're computer professionals. We cause accidents. - Nathaniel Borenstein