language redirect

[peter]

hello,

who knows if there is ascript that detects de country or language. I need
this to sent for example dutch people to a dutch site and german to a german
site.

thanx peter

[Russell Turner]

Re: language redirect

"peter" <peterbal@wanad oo.nl> wrote in message news:<ndq8b.301 585$0W5.8282400 @pollux.casema. net>...[color=blue]
> hello,
>
> who knows if there is ascript that detects de country or language. I need
> this to sent for example dutch people to a dutch site and german to a german
> site.
>
> thanx peter[/color]

Hi Peter,

You could try using the free GeoDirection service at
http://www.geobytes.com/GeoDirection.htm to redirect users based on
their location to a page that has the appropriate language for their
country.

Kind Regards
Russell Turner

[Dr John Stockton]

Re: language redirect

JRS: In article <c1874a8a.03091 80826.28f36750@ posting.google. com>, seen
in news:comp.lang. javascript, Russell Turner <russ@geobytes. com> posted
at Thu, 18 Sep 2003 09:26:29 :-[color=blue]
>"peter" <peterbal@wanad oo.nl> wrote in message news:<ndq8b.301 585$0W5.8282400 @po
>llux.casema.ne t>...[/color]
[color=blue][color=green]
>> who knows if there is ascript that detects de country or language. I need
>> this to sent for example dutch people to a dutch site and german to a german
>> site.[/color][/color]
[color=blue]
>You could try using the free GeoDirection service at
>http://www.geobytes.com/GeoDirection.htm to redirect users based on
>their location to a page that has the appropriate language for their
>country.[/color]

And what language do you assume for the UK, or Switzerland, or Finland,
or Belgium (where EU HQ is); or New York, where the UN HQ is - or even
the USA, which has a large Hispanic component?

Or any University or Laboratory, where one is very likely to find
foreign visitors and students - often using natively-configured
computers?

Or an Internet Cafe?

The ONLY sensible way is to allow the user to choose; and, moreover, to
change that choice freely.

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[Edo van der Zouwen]

Re: language redirect

"peter" <peterbal@wanad oo.nl> wrote in
news:ndq8b.3015 85$0W5.8282400@ pollux.casema.n et:
[color=blue]
> hello,
>
> who knows if there is ascript that detects de country or language. I
> need this to sent for example dutch people to a dutch site and german
> to a german site.
>
> thanx peter
>
>[/color]


The following script checks the language of the browser, and redirect
people to index_en.html, index_nl.html etc. Not written myself by the way,
found it on: http://tech.irt.org/articles/js082/index.htm and changed some
bits myself.


<SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaS cript1.2"><!--
// The following only works in JavaScript 1.2 or greater:
function showpage(code) {

location = ("index_" + code + ".html");
}


if (navigator.appN ame == 'Netscape')
var language = navigator.langu age;
else
var language = navigator.brows erLanguage;

var code = language.substr ing(0,2);

if (code == 'pl' || code == 'nl' || code == 'en')
showpage(code);
else
showpage('en');
//--></SCRIPT>


I'm still looking for a way to check the preferred language setting (which
you can set in the browsers preferences. I know it's in a tag
HTTP_ACCEPT_LAN GUAGE. I know how to check it with PhP, but not in
Javascript. Hope somebody can help me.

Thanks,


Edo.

[Edo van der Zouwen]

Re: language redirect

Dr John Stockton <spam@merlyn.de mon.co.uk> wrote in
news:DYw8a2GAeg a$EwUD@merlyn.d emon.co.uk:

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>
> And what language do you assume for the UK, or Switzerland, or
> Finland, or Belgium (where EU HQ is); or New York, where the UN HQ is
> - or even the USA, which has a large Hispanic component?
>
> Or any University or Laboratory, where one is very likely to find
> foreign visitors and students - often using natively-configured
> computers?
>
> Or an Internet Cafe?
>
> The ONLY sensible way is to allow the user to choose; and, moreover,
> to change that choice freely.
>[/color]

I think it is extra service to redirect visitors based on their browser
language and especially on their preferred language settings (that's why
they set it :).

However I agree that you must always allow visitors to change this, by
offering a link to different languages on each page.


Edo.

[Stephen]

Re: language redirect

Edo van der Zouwen wrote:[color=blue]
> Dr John Stockton <spam@merlyn.de mon.co.uk> wrote in
> news:DYw8a2GAeg a$EwUD@merlyn.d emon.co.uk:
>
>
>[color=green]
>>And what language do you assume for the UK, or Switzerland, or
>>Finland, or Belgium (where EU HQ is); or New York, where the UN HQ is
>>- or even the USA, which has a large Hispanic component?
>>
>>Or any University or Laboratory, where one is very likely to find
>>foreign visitors and students - often using natively-configured
>>computers?
>>
>>Or an Internet Cafe?
>>
>>The ONLY sensible way is to allow the user to choose; and, moreover,
>>to change that choice freely.
>>[/color]
>
>
> I think it is extra service to redirect visitors based on their browser
> language and especially on their preferred language settings (that's why
> they set it :).
>[/color]

I belive this should be handled server-side by configuring your server
to handle language-based content-negotiation in HTTP. That way selection
of language content variation is transparent to both the web-site user
and the web-site author. See your web server software documentation for
details.
[color=blue]
> However I agree that you must always allow visitors to change this, by
> offering a link to different languages on each page.
>[/color]

Yes, this is a sound idea.

Regards,
Stephen

[Russell Turner]

Re: language redirect

Dr John Stockton <spam@merlyn.de mon.co.uk> wrote in message news:<DYw8a2GAe ga$EwUD@merlyn. demon.co.uk>...[color=blue]
> JRS: In article <c1874a8a.03091 80826.28f36750@ posting.google. com>, seen
> in news:comp.lang. javascript, Russell Turner <russ@geobytes. com> posted
> at Thu, 18 Sep 2003 09:26:29 :-[color=green]
> >"peter" <peterbal@wanad oo.nl> wrote in message news:<ndq8b.301 585$0W5.8282400 @po
> >llux.casema.ne t>...[/color]
>[color=green][color=darkred]
> >> who knows if there is ascript that detects de country or language. I need
> >> this to sent for example dutch people to a dutch site and german to a german
> >> site.[/color][/color]
>[color=green]
> >You could try using the free GeoDirection service at
> >http://www.geobytes.com/GeoDirection.htm to redirect users based on
> >their location to a page that has the appropriate language for their
> >country.[/color]
>
> And what language do you assume for the UK, or Switzerland, or Finland,
> or Belgium (where EU HQ is); or New York, where the UN HQ is - or even
> the USA, which has a large Hispanic component?
>
> Or any University or Laboratory, where one is very likely to find
> foreign visitors and students - often using natively-configured
> computers?
>
> Or an Internet Cafe?
>
> The ONLY sensible way is to allow the user to choose; and, moreover, to
> change that choice freely.[/color]

A good point Peter. Sorry if my post was felt to be out of place. I
suggested our GeoDirection service because a client only recently
wanted to use GeoDirection for this very reason, he wanted to redirect
users from certain countries to language pages using our services. I
thought my input may be helpful to others. GeoDirection won't restrict
a visitors choice based on their location (unless the webmaster wants
to) - it will select for the webmaster what he/she wants their
visitors to see based upon their detected geographic location - it is
the webmasters discretion to include links to other pages of any form.

Kind Regards
Russell Turner