Re: bilingual websites

2001-10-29 21:59:20, Barry Caplan <bcaplan@i18n.com>:

>> I think it's always nice to obey the language setting for
>> those who did set it. But I also agree with Car that this is
>> not set that often. 
>
> Does anyone have any real statistics from various types of
> sites indicating when this is set and when it isn't?

Most browsers default to the locale/regional settings for the list 
of languages used in 'Accept-Language'. This means for example 
that people in the US, with the US version of Windows and Internet 
Explorer, will have 'Accept-Language'. People in Norway, with 
Norwegian versions of these programs will have language set to 
Norwegian. Generally, 'Accept-Language' is very often set.

But you *should* always have links to different language versions 
of the Web pages.

-- 
Karl Ove Hufthammer

Received on Tuesday, 30 October 2001 01:55:20 UTC