Comments on: How to detect the user’s preferred language – smarter than Google http://www.mpopp.net/2010/07/how-to-detect-the-users-preferred-language-smarter-than-google/ Thu, 19 Jan 2012 02:12:34 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Markus Popp http://www.mpopp.net/2010/07/how-to-detect-the-users-preferred-language-smarter-than-google/comment-page-1/#comment-39 Markus Popp Wed, 25 Aug 2010 00:50:15 +0000 http://www.mpopp.net/?p=41#comment-39 Already did: http://www.mpopp.net/2010/08/how-to-do-user-languagelocale-detection-quickly-without-zend-framework/ Already did: http://www.mpopp.net/2010/08/how-to-do-user-languagelocale-detection-quickly-without-zend-framework/

]]> By: physician assistant http://www.mpopp.net/2010/07/how-to-detect-the-users-preferred-language-smarter-than-google/comment-page-1/#comment-37 physician assistant Tue, 24 Aug 2010 19:43:45 +0000 http://www.mpopp.net/?p=41#comment-37 Keep posting stuff like this i really like it Keep posting stuff like this i really like it

]]> By: Markus Popp http://www.mpopp.net/2010/07/how-to-detect-the-users-preferred-language-smarter-than-google/comment-page-1/#comment-4 Markus Popp Sat, 24 Jul 2010 18:46:20 +0000 http://www.mpopp.net/?p=41#comment-4 The Zend Framework is smart enough to take this into account. If for example you pick a US English Firefox, add another language (lets say Arabic) in the browser’s language preferences (Edit – Preferences – Content tab – Languages) and put it on top, this code now recognizes Arabic as the desired language, rather than US English ;) The Zend Framework is smart enough to take this into account.

If for example you pick a US English Firefox, add another language (lets say Arabic) in the browser’s language preferences (Edit – Preferences – Content tab – Languages) and put it on top, this code now recognizes Arabic as the desired language, rather than US English ;)

]]> By: strcmp http://www.mpopp.net/2010/07/how-to-detect-the-users-preferred-language-smarter-than-google/comment-page-1/#comment-2 strcmp Sat, 24 Jul 2010 16:04:39 +0000 http://www.mpopp.net/?p=41#comment-2 Please don't forget the standard http content negotiation (the Accept-Language header), this is what the user explicitely chose in the browser preferences. I use an English browser (because translated menus tend to be harder to understand than the original, and the translations are not stable between products or versions), but I prefer German pages, with English as a second choice. Don't browsers send their own interface language in this header if you didn"t choose one, anyway? This is how this should be handled, intelligent solutions tend to be different everywhere, and it is hard for the users to find out why only one site behaves different from all the others. I would accept this heuristics as a fallback if everything else failed, though. (This _may_ be what you are suggesting, ins this case ignore this comment). Please don’t forget the standard http content negotiation (the Accept-Language header), this is what the user explicitely chose in the browser preferences. I use an English browser (because translated menus tend to be harder to understand than the original, and the translations are not stable between products or versions), but I prefer German pages, with English as a second choice. Don’t browsers send their own interface language in this header if you didn”t choose one, anyway? This is how this should be handled, intelligent solutions tend to be different everywhere, and it is hard for the users to find out why only one site behaves different from all the others. I would accept this heuristics as a fallback if everything else failed, though. (This _may_ be what you are suggesting, ins this case ignore this comment).

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