Re: [Templates] Getting the language of the browser

> Hi,

On 24 Dec 2004, at 13:08, Octavian Rasnita wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Does Template-Toolkit have a method of getting the list of languages
> preffered by the browser in order to be able to serve the content in 
> one of
> those languages?
> I would like to check if the first prefered language is available on 
> my site
> and if it is not, try the second and so on, until I find the prefered
> language for which I have a content translation, or if I don't have 
> for any
> of those languages, use a default language.
>
> I have done a script that does something like this, but I would like 
> to know
> if there is a better done way.

I have a handler that does this, on the theory that setting the charset
in the header is better than using meta tags.

Thinking about it, isn't the list of accepted languages part of the
environment anyway? env.HTTP ACCEPT LANGUAGE ?

Oh, and one more experience thing - we found that many people get upset 
at
your presumption that they want their native language by default!

        -- 
        Dave Hodgkinson
CTO, Rockit Factory Ltd.
http://www.rockitfactory.com/
Web sites for rock bands

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