Hello Sam,
Here are some thoughts I have on the topic...
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sam sherlock wrote:
Hello WSG List Members,
I am delveloping a website that can switch between english and
itallian. I am wondering if I should be using en-GB or en-gb for my
lang attributes
and also for the meta http-equiv=Content-Language content=en-GB
/ are these attributes sensitive to
Geoff Deering wrote:
Does anyone use transparent content negotiation to handle multiple
language sites? I get the feeling this is hardly ever used, if so, why
not?
The problem IME is that when you use it you have to also provide a way
for the user to pick her language which will override the
Robin Berjon wrote:
Geoff
Deering wrote:
Does anyone use transparent content
negotiation to handle multiple language sites? I get the feeling this
is hardly ever used, if so, why not?
The problem IME is that when you use it you have to also provide a way
for the user to pick
Robin Berjon wrote:
The problem IME is that when you use it you have to also provide a way
for the user to pick her language which will override the negotiation
(I've been accessing the Web a lot from computers localized in
Japanese recently, and they're probably not sending Accept-Language
sam sherlock wrote:
I am using ip2couuntry class in PHP to decide the default lanuage.
Thanks to Evandro who sent me a link to his site in Portugese and
English. The site in question does not use the language attribute as
inteneded (as far as I understand) all Lan attributes are set to en
for
sam sherlock wrote:
I would also appreciate any links to web standard sites using multiple
languages?
Still doing some under-the-hood work on this one to bring it up to
speed, but you can check out http://www.liveinvictoria.vic.gov.au/ to
see the site I was pestering the list about a month or
sam sherlock wrote:
I am using ip2couuntry class in PHP to decide the default lanuage.
I don't know if this is the greatest feature - definitely not in Canada
where I live. Since the country has two official languages [english
and french], it would still requires an "evil", but
