Yes there are ways through Javascript to do a localization/language check,
but I think for the user experience it is much better to let them decide
which direction they would like to go.
dan mccullough + web technology specialist + garnet hill + 603.823.5545 x
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-----Original Message-----
From: Shannon -jj Behrens [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, May 30, 2000 7:02 PM
To: FreeTrade
Subject: Re: [FreeTrade] Double language, may be a solutions?!?
This is cool because it is beyond just localization, it verges on
internationalization. I wonder if you could automatically detect the
desired language via the browser variables.
-jj
Steve wrote:
>
> Hi at all,
>
> I don't know if this solution can interest to anyone, the double dns
> solutions posted some time ago was very nice, but more expensive in time
> to disk space, this solution is a very low level, but working good ;-)
>
> Create a index.html or what do you think is better for you with 2 link
> like this:
>
> -------------------------- START FILE -----------------------------
>
> <html>
> <body>
> Would you like Fretrade speak in
> <a href="index.php3"> Italiano</a> or in <br>
> <a href="index-eng.php3">English</a><br>
> </body>
> </html>
> -------------------------- END FILE -----------------------------
>
>
>
> Create 2 simply file like this index.php3 (with your default language)
> and index-eng.php3 (with english translation)
> And put the DEFINE function about language after those:
>
> --------------------
>
> file index.php3
>
> define("SERVER_NAME", $SERVER_NAME);
> define("SCRIPT_NAME", basename(__FILE__));
> define("APPLICATION_ROOT", ereg_replace("([^/\\]*)$", "", dirn
> ame(__FILE__)));
> define("EXTERNAL_PATH", dirname($SCRIPT_NAME) . "/");
>
> define('LANGUAGE_DEF', 'italiano');
> include(APPLICATION_ROOT . "/modules/language/" . LANGUAGE_DEF);
>
> --------------------
>
> file index-eng.php3
>
> define("SERVER_NAME", $SERVER_NAME);
> define("SCRIPT_NAME", basename(__FILE__));
> define("APPLICATION_ROOT", ereg_replace("([^/\\]*)$", "", dirn
> ame(__FILE__)));
> define("EXTERNAL_PATH", dirname($SCRIPT_NAME) . "/");
>
> define('LANGUAGE_DEF', 'english');
> include(APPLICATION_ROOT . "/modules/language/" . LANGUAGE_DEF);
>
> --------------------
>
> Last but not least, remove the two last lines abut language from your
> /include/global_settings
>
> Obviously the files /language/english and /language/italiano must
> be exactly translated and must running without problem.
>
> Many tanks to all the people that working around bugs and enhancements
> of FreeTrade.
>
> --
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>
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