Without language detection you only have two options:
- a page with ONLY the languages listing, like the European portal proposed by Sj - a page in English, hoping that the majority of the online community can read it.
The current page at www.wikipedia.org is a compromise with a language listing, some English-only content, and some limited multilanguage content.
Detecting the language enables you to, at least, present what would normally be English-only in a language that your reader understands.
Alfio
On Mon, 10 Jan 2005, Mark Williamson wrote:
Again, any browser-setting based redirect or even not a redirect but a simple "your language: xxx" notice suffers from problems I have already enumerated.
Mark
On Mon, 10 Jan 2005 17:03:53 +0100 (MET), Alfio Puglisi puglisi@arcetri.astro.it wrote:
Please now have a look at
http://www.tommasoconforti.com/portal3.php
(note the "3"). Only works with English, German, French and Italian browser settings, to save on typing. Any errors are Google translation fault:-))
This version translates all the top banner and adds "Go" box with text in your language, and a drop-down selection of the available languages, with yours selected first. Try changing your browser from en: to fr: or it:.
If you change the language preference and reload, your browser might retain the drop-down box selection (Firefox does), so you won't see the new one automatically selected. In that case, try clearing your cache (Firefox has a special cache for form data that needs to be cleared).
Strings are hard-coded inside the script. Moving them to an external configuration file is not a problem.
Alfio
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