Retrieve the user's browser language

[dharyl]

Hi Everyone,

I'm dharyl from Philippines, I had a problem in knowing the user's browser Language. I was asked to have an alert pop up when the user of the site is using other language than "en-us".
I had this code below just to test what language setting should the page read from the user.
[CODE=javascript]<script language="JavaS cript">
var a = navigator.brows erLanguage;
var b = navigator.userL anguage;
var c = navigator.syste mLanguage;
alert("browser language");
alert(a);
alert("user language");
alert(b);
alert("system language");
alert(c);
</script>[/CODE]

navigator.browserLanguage --> en-us
navigator.systemLanguage --> en-us
navigator.userLanguage --> en-us

when I change my browser language from Tools>InternetO ptions>General> Languages
results are the same:

navigator.browserLanguage --> en-us
navigator.systemLanguage --> en-us
navigator.userLanguage --> en-us

when I change my browser language from
Start>ControlPa nel>Regionaland LanguageOptions >Regional Options tab
the value of userLanguage changes just as what I set:

navigator.browserLanguage --> en-us
navigator.systemLanguage --> en-us
navigator.userLanguage --> Ja

That means navigator.userL anguage is for this one
Start>ControlPa nel>Regionaland LanguageOptions >Regional Options tab

Now my point is how would I get the value of language setting from this one?
Tools>InternetO ptions>General> Languages

Because I guess that's what I need for my task to be done.
Hope you guys can help me on this.


Thanks in advance,
dha

[acoder]

Hi, welcome to TSDN!

Some or all of these properties are not supported by most browsers. See this link.

[dharyl]

Hi, welcome to TSDN!

Some or all of these properties are not supported by most browsers. See this link.

Hi acoder,

Thanks for the reply. I think all I need for now is to make it work in IE.
Or are there no more way for my codes to know what browser language the user is using? Coz I really need solution for this problem.

thanks,
dharyl

[acoder]

If you want an IE-only solution, you could use ActiveX/vbscript instead. This allows you to access the local settings when the correct security level is enabled.

[dharyl]

If you want an IE-only solution, you could use ActiveX/vbscript instead. This allows you to access the local settings when the correct security level is enabled.

but I need to do it in JavaScript

[acoder]

but I need to do it in JavaScript

Then sorry, but it's not possible.

[dharyl]

Then sorry, but it's not possible.

Hi acoder,

thanks for your time. if ever I'll be able to find solution for this, I'll send it to you, maybe somebody will need it in the near future.


Thanks for time,

dharyl :)

[acoder]

Yes, that's the spirit! You'll probably need a mixture of JScript (IE version of JavaScript) and vbscript or something along those lines. Good luck!

[dharyl]

hi acoder,


Good news!
I have resolved my issue, but not with the help of JavaScript. I used VB.Net, I created a webpart with MOSS2007, the code was VB.Net.
I used this line of code below to retreive the user's browser language which is being passed to the server using the HTTP header.

HttpContext.Cur rent.requestSer verVariables("H TTP_ACCEPT_LANG UAGE")

Hope this would help someone in the future.



And by the way I had a new issue encountered in one of my pages.
When I use the word search as search term, the page returns error.
Do you have any thoughts on this?


Thanks,

dha

[acoder]

Good news!
I have resolved my issue, but not with the help of JavaScript. I used VB.Net, I created a webpart with MOSS2007, the code was VB.Net.
I used this line of code below to retreive the user's browser language which is being passed to the server using the HTTP header.

HttpContext.Cur rent.requestSer verVariables("H TTP_ACCEPT_LANG UAGE")

I'm glad you got it working.

Hope this would help someone in the future.

I'm sure it will. Thanks for posting your solution.

Note that I've changed the thread title to make it easier for others with a similar problem to find this thread.

And by the way I had a new issue encountered in one of my pages.
When I use the word search as search term, the page returns error.
Do you have any thoughts on this?

If it's a JavaScript error, start a new thread for this mentioning the error message.

[vishwaskulkarni]

Other Than VB.NET solution

Other Than VB.NET solution

If you are using JAVA or PHP or ASP, following is the solution

In ASP, you can use the ServerVariables collection of the Request object to retrieve the value of HTTP headers. You can choose either VBScript or JScript

$accept_languag e = $ENV{"HTTP_ACCE PT_LANGUAGE"};

Retrieving HTTP Headers with PHP

In PHP, the value of HTTP headers are stored in the $_SERVER array. Here is the code for retrieving HTTP headers:

$accept_languag e = $_SERVER["HTTP_ACCEPT_LA NGUAGE"];

Retrieving HTTP Headers with Java Servlet / JSP

String accept_language = request.getHead er("accept-language");

As you can see, to retrieve the value of an HTTP header whose name is x in Java Servlet or JSP, we use request.getHead er("x"), where request is an instance of the javax.servlet.h ttp.HttpServlet Request class.