- From: Gavin Nicol <gtn@eps.inso.com>
- Date: Fri, 18 Jul 1997 08:49:34 -0400
- To: gwm@austin.ibm.com
- CC: www-international@w3.org, joe.ross@tivoli.com
>Are there any browsers which already send an Accept-Language header >based on the user's language? Yes. SOme version of Netscape do this, and does Tango, and I think MSIE too. >Assuming that the browser does this, what should the server do >with this? Depends on the server... >Does there have to be a script on the server to find the HTML files >in the right language? That is one thing you can do. >Has anyone implemented a dynamic multilingual web site which does not >require the user to explicitly indicate the language as part of the URL? In DynaWeb, I can tweak the configuration files so that a user with and Accept-Language set to ja would only see Japanese books. Apache has had something like this for a long time via the content negotiation capabilities.
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