2007/04/18

Presenting Proper Language Versions of Web Pages to Visitors

Web sites such as www.trendmicro.com and www.blogger.com are built with intelligence to pre-select the languages for display to visitors. If I use English version of IE, the pages are in English text. However, if I use Chinese Version of Firefox, pages in Chinese text are returned. I think this is by means of a front end little Javascript to perform a browser language redirect.

Other than browser language detection, another means is GeoIP database. If the GeoIP detects that a visitor'S IP address is one from China, web pages in simplified Chinese version should be invoked.

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