This a problem, because, somebody cannot understand
"choose your language".
I would hope everyone in the world who would use
Wikipedia would be able to read the phrase, "Choose
your language" or at least the word "language". In
all of my travels, I've only found one person (a young
Japanese person in the USA on a Greyhound bus) who
couldn't understand the word "language". I'm sure
though that a Japanese person seeing a link with
Japanese characters would click it though...
Generally when I meet someone in a country where I
can't speak the language, I start by saying "English,
Deutsch, Espa~nol?" and then usually the reply is
"English" or "Deutsch" and then we begin a
conversation. In this same way Wikipedia would start
by presenting the languages in question, like
http://europa.eu.int/,
www.esperanto.net or
www.tejo.org.
I have a fair amount of experience with multilingual
webpages, and this is the general practice and
multilingual people really appreciate knowing that a
language is in more than one language instead of
simply being directed to "their version".
Automatic redirection solves this problem,
transporting you to your language frontpage.
This doesn't show that a webpage is in multiple
languages and doesn't help the Esperanto speakers in
the Czech Republic nor the English speakers in Sweden.
Later, in this page you can choose, using the
language you understand, go to another page of a
language you speak too, like or understand.
But what if you don't understand the page that your
browser has redirected you to because your browser is
poorly configured or you're using a computer in an
Internet cafe which uses a language you can't
understand? I still remember the nightmares of trying
to set up an MSN messenger account which I desperately
needed in a Czech republic internet cafe! ...and try
changing your browser settings when all the browser
help is in Czech!
Chuck
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Interesting fact: Google returns more
results for "Esperanto" than for "Catalan"
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