On Thursday, March 21, 2002, at 01:44 , Doug Ewell wrote: > Only slightly more seriously, I imagine it would be possible to examine > the top-level domain and: > > (1) if .cn, .tw, .hk, .sg, .mo --> display URL with Chinese glyphs > (2) if .jp --> display URL with Japanese glyphs > (3) otherwise punt (browser's choice)
Sorry. It won't work. There are too many Japanese and Chinese pages on .com, net, .tv, .cx and others. Internet domain has little to do with actual language used therein. And as for Chinese, how do you tell whether Traditional or Simplified is more appropriate? HTML and XML at least has a salvation to this; lang= attribute in the tag is exactly for that purpose. Unfortunately lang= attribute is not very popular yet so I am not sure how reliably you can use this attribute (but hey, it is at least well-documented). Dan the Man with Too Many Web Pages Looking Funny
