language redirect

[peter]

hello,

who knows if there is ascript that detects de country or language. I need
this to sent for example dutch people to a dutch site and german to a german
site.

thanx peter

[Russell Turner]

"peter" <pe******@wanad oo.nl> wrote in message news:<nd******* *************** @pollux.casema. net>...

hello,

who knows if there is ascript that detects de country or language. I need
this to sent for example dutch people to a dutch site and german to a german
site.

thanx peter

Hi Peter,

You could try using the free GeoDirection service at
http://www.geobytes.com/GeoDirection.htm to redirect users based on
their location to a page that has the appropriate language for their
country.

Kind Regards
Russell Turner

[Dr John Stockton]

JRS: In article <c1************ **************@ posting.google. com>, seen
in news:comp.lang. javascript, Russell Turner <ru**@geobytes. com> posted
at Thu, 18 Sep 2003 09:26:29 :-

"peter" <pe******@wanad oo.nl> wrote in message news:<ndq8b.301 585$0W5.8282400 @po
llux.casema.ne t>...

who knows if there is ascript that detects de country or language. I need
this to sent for example dutch people to a dutch site and german to a german
site.

You could try using the free GeoDirection service at
http://www.geobytes.com/GeoDirection.htm to redirect users based on
their location to a page that has the appropriate language for their
country.

And what language do you assume for the UK, or Switzerland, or Finland,
or Belgium (where EU HQ is); or New York, where the UN HQ is - or even
the USA, which has a large Hispanic component?

Or any University or Laboratory, where one is very likely to find
foreign visitors and students - often using natively-configured
computers?

Or an Internet Cafe?

The ONLY sensible way is to allow the user to choose; and, moreover, to
change that choice freely.

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[Edo van der Zouwen]

"peter" <pe******@wanad oo.nl> wrote in
news:nd******** **************@ pollux.casema.n et:

hello,

who knows if there is ascript that detects de country or language. I
need this to sent for example dutch people to a dutch site and german
to a german site.

thanx peter

The following script checks the language of the browser, and redirect
people to index_en.html, index_nl.html etc. Not written myself by the way,
found it on: http://tech.irt.org/articles/js082/index.htm and changed some
bits myself.
<SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaS cript1.2"><!--
// The following only works in JavaScript 1.2 or greater:
function showpage(code) {

location = ("index_" + code + ".html");
}
if (navigator.appN ame == 'Netscape')
var language = navigator.langu age;
else
var language = navigator.brows erLanguage;

var code = language.substr ing(0,2);

if (code == 'pl' || code == 'nl' || code == 'en')
showpage(code);
else
showpage('en');
//--></SCRIPT>
I'm still looking for a way to check the preferred language setting (which
you can set in the browsers preferences. I know it's in a tag
HTTP_ACCEPT_LAN GUAGE. I know how to check it with PhP, but not in
Javascript. Hope somebody can help me.

Thanks,
Edo.

[Edo van der Zouwen]

Dr John Stockton <sp**@merlyn.de mon.co.uk> wrote in
news:DY******** ******@merlyn.d emon.co.uk:

And what language do you assume for the UK, or Switzerland, or
Finland, or Belgium (where EU HQ is); or New York, where the UN HQ is
- or even the USA, which has a large Hispanic component?

Or any University or Laboratory, where one is very likely to find
foreign visitors and students - often using natively-configured
computers?

Or an Internet Cafe?

The ONLY sensible way is to allow the user to choose; and, moreover,
to change that choice freely.

I think it is extra service to redirect visitors based on their browser
language and especially on their preferred language settings (that's why
they set it :).

However I agree that you must always allow visitors to change this, by
offering a link to different languages on each page.
Edo.

[Stephen]

Edo van der Zouwen wrote:

Dr John Stockton <sp**@merlyn.de mon.co.uk> wrote in
news:DY******** ******@merlyn.d emon.co.uk:

And what language do you assume for the UK, or Switzerland, or
Finland, or Belgium (where EU HQ is); or New York, where the UN HQ is
- or even the USA, which has a large Hispanic component?

Or any University or Laboratory, where one is very likely to find
foreign visitors and students - often using natively-configured
computers?

Or an Internet Cafe?

The ONLY sensible way is to allow the user to choose; and, moreover,
to change that choice freely.
I think it is extra service to redirect visitors based on their browser
language and especially on their preferred language settings (that's why
they set it :).

I belive this should be handled server-side by configuring your server
to handle language-based content-negotiation in HTTP. That way selection
of language content variation is transparent to both the web-site user
and the web-site author. See your web server software documentation for
details.
However I agree that you must always allow visitors to change this, by
offering a link to different languages on each page.

Yes, this is a sound idea.

Regards,
Stephen

[Russell Turner]

Dr John Stockton <sp**@merlyn.de mon.co.uk> wrote in message news:<DY******* *******@merlyn. demon.co.uk>...

JRS: In article <c1************ **************@ posting.google. com>, seen
in news:comp.lang. javascript, Russell Turner <ru**@geobytes. com> posted
at Thu, 18 Sep 2003 09:26:29 :-

"peter" <pe******@wanad oo.nl> wrote in message news:<ndq8b.301 585$0W5.8282400 @po
llux.casema.ne t>...

who knows if there is ascript that detects de country or language. I need
this to sent for example dutch people to a dutch site and german to a german
site.

You could try using the free GeoDirection service at
http://www.geobytes.com/GeoDirection.htm to redirect users based on
their location to a page that has the appropriate language for their
country.

And what language do you assume for the UK, or Switzerland, or Finland,
or Belgium (where EU HQ is); or New York, where the UN HQ is - or even
the USA, which has a large Hispanic component?

Or any University or Laboratory, where one is very likely to find
foreign visitors and students - often using natively-configured
computers?

Or an Internet Cafe?

The ONLY sensible way is to allow the user to choose; and, moreover, to
change that choice freely.

A good point Peter. Sorry if my post was felt to be out of place. I
suggested our GeoDirection service because a client only recently
wanted to use GeoDirection for this very reason, he wanted to redirect
users from certain countries to language pages using our services. I
thought my input may be helpful to others. GeoDirection won't restrict
a visitors choice based on their location (unless the webmaster wants
to) - it will select for the webmaster what he/she wants their
visitors to see based upon their detected geographic location - it is
the webmasters discretion to include links to other pages of any form.

Kind Regards
Russell Turner