Re: Localized Pages

[Calum Benson <calum benson ireland sun com>]

Joakim Ziegler wrote:

> I'm curious. Specifically, was the reason for this one of:
>
> * The browser sends broken language information, so that you end up with
>   languages you didn't want at all (IE, for me at least)
> * The browser has a sucky/no interface for actually selecting languages, or
>   the user doesn't know about this interface

In fact, the main reasons seem to be "human"-- for example, in technical
fields, people thinking in a different language from the one they
normally write or speak.

Anyway, the whole thread is archived at:

http://www.listserv.acm.org/archives/wa.cgi?S2=chi-web&q=&s=language+selection+mechanism&f=&a=&b=

Cheeri,
Calum.

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