Posted by m6s on 12/16/05 14:54

J.O. Aho wrote:
> m6s wrote:
>
>>J.O. Aho wrote:
>>
>>>m6s wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>Can I select what page I will load based on the location of the viewer?
>>>>If the page that will load will be, English or other?
>>>
>>>
>>>Yes, it would be possible to do this, as most IP-numbers can be traced
>>>with
>>>whois servers where they should be located. This has of course it's
>>>drawback,
>>>what if you have a person visiting a foreign country and connect to
>>>the net
>>>and visits your site, then it could be in a language that the person
>>>don't
>>>understand.
>>>
>>>There is nowadays support for multiple languages in web servers, at
>>>least in
>>>the worlds most used one. This will make that you get the language
>>>that the
>>>user has set to be their default language in their browser. This will
>>>take a
>>>lot less CPU power and bandwidth for your web server than checking up
>>>from
>>>where an IP-number comes from and a user will most likely get the right
>>>language regardless from where they connect.
>>>
>>>
>>> //Aho
>>
>>Yes nice workaout, any suggestion on what to read? Any url? I want to
>>tweak my site on sourceforge.net, because I get too many flames for this
>>innability of mine... ;-(
>
>
> I think they do run apache over there, so the apache documentation at
> www.apache.org would be a good place to start, look for the following commands
> for more information
>
> DefaultLanguage
> AddLanguage
> LanguagePriority
> ForceLanguagePriority
>
>
> You may want to read about (not sure)
>
> AddDefaultCharset
> AddCharset
>
>
>
> //Aho

Danke!

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