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Posted by Carl Vondrick on 02/27/06 08:57
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?
>
Not to be biased or anything, but probably make English or your prime
audience's language the default. English is probably (not data to back
this up) the most popular language, and most people can understand the
very basics.
Carl
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