auto language detect

P&L

Hi all,
I need to put a few pages on my site in two different languages. Ive been looking all day, and I thought this would be really simple to do / easy to find... but it doesn't seem so..

So basically what I want is to write a html/css page with both languages included and have the reader's browser only render the language set in their preferences and ignore the other language.

Can this be done? I starting to think not... (I know it can be done with advanced coding, but that's not for me - its mostly just a personal site, nothing professional or commercial)

any info appreciated

mneylon

It can be done - yes.

You might want to poke around http://www.hotscripts.com or one of the other online script archives.
Basically you want to check the language string in the browser and push the relevant version of the site/page to them.

P&L

It looks like that is what I'll have to do, I just assumed I would be able to do something like this:

<p>
<language=en>
english language text
</language>

<language=fr>
french language text
</language>
</p>

With something in the head that detects the language and only renders text in-between preferred <language> tags. thus saving me work and making the pages much more manageable , similar priniciple to CSS kindof... everything on the one page

guess Ive just gotten too used to things being easy for non-web guys

cheers blacknight!

mneylon

Try this query:
http://www.hotscripts.com/cgi-bin/search.cgi?bool=AND&query=browser+language&catid=all

Some of that is quite old, but it should give you a start