[Sigia-l] Multiple languages on a single web page

[Chiara Fox]

Hello Dianne-

The idea of having language preferences and having the
site automatically serve up the page in a preferred
language is something we are thinking about.

Are the browser-based language preferences widely used
though? Is it something that is unique to IE? We need
to support a variety of browsers on different
platforms. I also worry that not many users know to
adjust that setting. Of course, it may be common
knowledge outside the US. Any insights from collegues
not based in the US?

-Chiara

--- diannes at dbfields.com wrote:
> It occurs to me that one way out of this (for
> dynamically generated pages anyway) is to use  
> language detection and to append a parenthetic note 
> to link text for pages that are only available in
> languages *not* listed in 
> the user's browser preferences: i.e. '<a
> href="...">Page title (in Swedish)</a>'
> if the request lists the user's language preferences
> as en-US,fr,de.

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