Re: Language Guess from IP

Have a look at Apache::GeoIP or IP::Country. That leaves you with the nice task to decide what language to pick for which country. Especially nice for mine where you can choose between Dutch and French, the wrong guess won't be appreciated ;-)

Hope this helps, -gjb-

Update: I forgot about our German speaking community, so I'm typing this hanging from a tree (I hope you get my point ;-)

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Re: Re: Language Guess from IP by mpeppler (Vicar) on Dec 05, 2002 at 18:44 UTC
Especially nice for mine where you can choose between Dutch and French, the wrong guess won't be appreciated ;-) Indeed. I was in Switzerland this summer, and google kept giving me www.google.ch, in German. I was connecting in the French speaking part of the country, but that didn't have any effect, of course - very annoying. Guessing may be OK for some things, but it's better if you let the user select... Michael	[reply]
Re^3: Language Guess from IP by Aristotle (Chancellor) on Dec 05, 2002 at 19:56 UTC
Actually, Google goes by the Accept-Language header; for me it seems to do so, anyway. My browser is set to ask for English pages, and consequently I stay on google.com, even though I'm in Germany, where you're usually redirected to google.de. Makeshifts last the longest.	[reply]
Re: Re^3: Language Guess from IP by mpeppler (Vicar) on Dec 05, 2002 at 21:10 UTC
Actually, Google goes by the Accept-Language header Hmmm... didn't seem to work for me. I was using my linux laptop, dialing in to ATT Global in Geneva. The language setting for my Mozilla config on the laptop is English. Oh well... Michael	[reply]


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