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Posted by J.O. Aho on 12/16/05 14:29
m6s wrote:
> J.O. Aho wrote:
>> m6s wrote:
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>>> 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
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