Posted by Zyron on 01/16/30 11:31

Hi Neil!

Thanks for getting back to me so quickly.

Neil Smith [MVP Digital Media] wrote:
> >I'm about to finish my Geo targeting system that will identify where
> >the users are coming from based on their IP address,
>
> In fact you're *not* about to finish this. You're just about to dive
> into a deep, brown-water filled hole. The reason is that IP address
> blocks are regularly reallocated, and there's no authoritative list of
> IPs. In addition, providers like AOL regularly report as USA IPs,
> though they *can* be in the UK, Europe, Australasia or elsewhere.

Well, I will have to agree with you that it is far from complete,
especially considering that I am in the process of improving the
database to suit my needs.
The database I have chosen to use is: http://hostip.info/
which contain city information as well.

But there are problems with international characters in the city names,
and only USA is divided into regions.

For each country I would also like to include which official language
is each country has, so that Switzerland would be listed with German,
French and Italian.

I have a solution in sight for most problems, except a complete list of
country names in local language.
So instead of writing Norway, it should say Norge, and instead of
Germany, it should say Deutschland.

>
> >project I would really like to replace the English country list with a
> >list of the country in the local language. I'm been around on
> >Internet, but so far I have only been able to find the list in various
> >languages like French and Japanese, instead of every country listed in
> >the local name.
>
> Can I save you some trouble here, as I've gone round this loop for my
> videochat site. You actually want to look at the browser's reported
> i18n language code not the IP address. In general this is set by the
> users OS, which is (in general) set correctly by the user.

This is of course something that the framework will take into
consideration, and also put much faith in.
But with my personalization project, I want to do everything that is
possible to make the calculations as precise as possible.
Myself I am from Norway, but use an English Windows like many other
Norwegians. So that method would not help in my case.


> And finally : ***what does this have to do with XML*** which is the
> subject of this newsgroup ?

Now that is a good question. Except that my framework will use XML,
there is no direct connection with XML except that a search on Google
groups
showed that this group is knowledgeable about UTF - 8 encoding.

>
> HTH
> Cheers - Neil

Cheers!

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