Re: Localized Pages

[Calum Benson <calum benson ireland sun com>]

Christian Rose wrote:

> I was thinking that the solution being discussed was one based on the
> user's language preferences in the browser, i.e. when the user goes to
> www.gnome.org his language preferences are detected in his browser by
> the site, and the pages automatically served in his preferred language.

Just as an aside, we had a discussion about doing automatic langauge
detection for websites on the ACM CHI-WEB mailing list a while back-- it
turns out that most people don't like it for various reasons, and would
rather pick their language themselves from the webpage.  

I can probably post a pointer to the archived discussion, if anyone's
interested...

Cheeri, 
Calum.

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