About Multiple Languages on a Site

killua · 10-09-2004, 06:14 AM

I want my website to have two languages. One is English and one is Japanese. I like to have www.domain.com to be english and www.domain.com/ja/ to be Japanese.

Now, If a user is using a Japanese Operating System, I want him/her to be automatically redirected to www.domain.com/ja/ (a Japanese version). If a user is using an ordinary English OS, then it stays the same as www.domain.com.

One good example of this I found is Skype.com (the older website). However, I don't know what HTML code I should use. Kindly tell me what kind of code I should put and where? And I want it to be Google and Search Engine friendly.

Thanks

Ricoool · 10-09-2004, 03:02 PM

not sure if this works

Code:

 <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />
<title>Untitled Document</title>
</head>

<body>
<% language = Request.ServerVariables("HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE")
If language = "da" Then %>
<!--#include virtual = "/da.shtml"-->
<% ElseIf language = "it" Then %>
<!--#include virtual = "/it.shtml"-->
<% Else %>
<!--#include virtual = "/en.shtml"-->
<% End If %>
</body>
</html>

ASP and SSI, should present "dansk" if system is danish "italian" if system is italian and english for the rest, dont know if it works with all browsers, otherwise you need a service that will tell you what contry an IP is assigned to ??
test http://www.cybernation.dk/lingo.asp.

killua · 10-10-2004, 12:10 AM

Thanks. I'll try if it works.