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Posted by Jerry Stuckle on 02/27/06 04:18
David Haynes wrote:
> Jerry Stuckle wrote:
>
>> Jan wrote:
>>
>>> We'd like our web site to switch language depending on the country of
>>> the IP, or alternatively the language of the user's system if an IP
>>> check makes the server too slow. We'll have up to 600 new visits per
>>> minute at our site.
>>>
>>> Basics
>>> 1. Load DE.htm page by default
>>> 2. Switch to EN.htm or FR.htm for certain IP countries
>>> 3. Store value in cookie to avoid IP lookup for next visit, prefer P3P
>>> compliant
>>> 4. Let user pick language at any time in our menu, updating the cookie
>>>
>>> Free country database is available at:
>>> http://www.maxmind.com/app/geoip_country
>>>
>>> Ryanair.com is a site that appears to use a similar approach.
>>>
>>> If interested, we also have other web related tasks as well as SQL
>>> related ones. Maybe this is not the right forum to ask for assistence,
>>> any pointers to a good place?
>>>
>>
>> Yep, don't bother.
>>
>> First of all IP databases by country are not real reliable. They show
>> only where the server is, not where your user is.
>>
>> But more importantly, the country may not reflect the desired language
>> of the user. For instance, what about Canada? Quebec, for instance,
>> has two official languages - French and English.
>
> Actually *Canada* has two official languages: French and English. Quebec
> naturally prefers French (as does big pieces of New Brunswick) while
> others prefer English.
>
> Switzerland has, I believe, four official languages.
>
> As for mapping languages by ip. It's a bad idea. Let the user select the
> language they wish.
>
> -david-
>
David,
Thanks for the correction. I knew Quebec had two languages but I wasn't
sure about all of Canada.
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