Re: [PHP-DEV] Language Auto Detection / www.php.net

On Mon, 10 Mar 2003, Gabor Hojtsy wrote:

> > It detects upon the user-prefered language in the browser, hence
> > I don't have this problem as I prefer english in browser.
> > 
> > But yes - if you prefer your native language in general, this can be
> > annoying especially since you don't have any control over it (like
> > with a cookie saving general prefs for .php.net).
> 
> What browser denies you from setting this accept-language thing?

No one, but that was not the point. The point is that I don't WANT my 
preferred language (it's nl) for the PHP Manual as the dutch translation 
sucks :)

> You do have control over it, and it is far more general then
> having a cookie in the browser. Which is also not that flexible,
> as we would probably only store one language code.

What's the problem with a cookie?

> Please direct any mail traffic reagarding this problem to
> [email protected] which is intended to be the list
> for such discussions, and so the people responsible for the
> site can read the comments on it...
> 
> I guess php-dev does not need more offopic mails ;)

I'm still CC-ing them, because not everybody is on php-mirrors

Derick

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