Re: Proof-of-concept intl portal language sniffing

Arwel Parry <arwel-wfA80NnNzEcG2Il/[email protected]> Sun, 7 Dec 2003 15:37:39 +0000
Newsgroups gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.international
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In message <F6B719C9-28C3-11D8-B317-000A95DAA284-e+AXbWqSrlAAvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>, Brion 
Vibber <brion-e+AXbWqSrlAAvxtiuMwx3w-XMD5yJDbdMReXY1tMh2IBg@public.gmane.org> writes
>Rough proof-of-concept page: http://www.wikipedia.org/portal
>
>This demo script tries to figure out what languages you're likely to be 
>looking for, based on the Accept-Language header your browser sends out 
>and/or the top-level country domain you're visiting from. It highlights 
>these languages in the complete list, and adds an extra welcome message 
>and link at the top. It's just a demo, and is neither complete nor 
>attractive. :)
>
>If results seem unusual to you, display the page source HTML, down at 
>the bottom is some debug output in a comment.

Neat. In my case the main welcome is in English with an additional 
"Continue in Cymraeg" (though if you proceed with this you'll need to 
localise the greeting -- this one should be "Parhau yn Gymraeg" !).

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Arwel Parry
http://www.cartref.demon.co.uk/