Locale is the only thing that really works. IP/Country is fine if you have to
model different business processes depending on the location (VAT tax vs Sales
Tax). Export restrictions, etc etc.
Remember, just because you know they might be in France, doesn't mean they
don't prefer English. Over
:* [flexcoders] IP adress for Language
Hello,
I have a bilingual Flex application. French and English.
How to automatically set the French or English version in function of the
IP adress localisation of the client PC ?
Thank you,
Christophe,
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Hello,
I have a bilingual Flex application. French and English.
How to automatically set the French or English version in function of the IP
adress localisation of the client PC ?
Thank you,
Christophe,
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Subject: [flexcoders] IP adress for Language
Hello,
I have a bilingual Flex application. French and English.
How to automatically set the French or English version
You don't mention what sort of back-end setup you have but there is a free perl
module for doing this called Geo::IP::PurePerl which uses a local .dat file to
convert the client's IP to a country code. You can then use this info to derive
a locale. I use it to find a local mirror for static
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On 1/21/2010 5:39 AM, Kelly wrote:
Its generally considered 'best practices' to set the language based on
the browser settings rather then IP Address.
no it's not. many users don't bother setting them or worse play around (i've
seen many users w/klingon in their HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE) or just
Arabs are arabic, or so I'm lead to believe. :-)
In the final analysis both approaches are useful, but you MUST give
the user the ability to change the language. We use these inputs to
pick a default language that we present in a list of available
languages. The user gets to say ok or pick
On 1/21/2010 10:35 AM, g...@alchemy.com.au wrote:
In the final analysis both approaches are useful, but you MUST give
the user the ability to change the language. We use these inputs to
yup, automagic suggestion with a control for the user to manually pick their
locale (w/the locales in that
On 1/20/2010 10:58 PM, Christophe wrote:
I have a bilingual Flex application. French and English.
How to automatically set the French or English version in function of the IP
adress localisation of the client PC ?
well i would like to suggest http://javainetlocator.sourceforge.net/ (server
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