Auto detect language on fedoraproject.org

[Alexandru Szasz]

Isn't it possible to autodetect the language based on the ip address on
fedoraproject.org? Like google does ?
This, but leaving the option to change the language if there's a mistake
(proxy or something).

[Laith Juwaidah]

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That would be cool!
Or, they can use the info the browser sends in the header...
'cause here in the gulf, we have people from all over the world, and not all
of them speak Arabic, so it's much better if they can choose the language
they want...
It's also a good idea to remember the user's preferred language, either by
cookies, or by IP address...

Cheers!
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On 10/29/07, Alexandru Szasz  wrote:
> Isn't it possible to autodetect the language based on the ip address on
> fedoraproject.org? Like google does ?
> This, but leaving the option to change the language if there's a mistake
> (proxy or something).
>
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[Xavi Conde]

Hi,

2007/10/29, Alexandru Szasz :
> Isn't it possible to autodetect the language based on the ip address on
> fedoraproject.org? Like google does ?
> This, but leaving the option to change the language if there's a mistake
> (proxy or something).

I think there were some discussions about this, you may search through
the mail archive for the thread.

Regards!

[Ricky Zhou]

On Mon, Oct 29, 2007 at 10:42:30AM +0200, Alexandru Szasz wrote:
> Isn't it possible to autodetect the language based on the ip address on
> fedoraproject.org? Like google does ?
> This, but leaving the option to change the language if there's a mistake
> (proxy or something).

The website should automatically use whatever language that the browser
is setup to request (using the Accept-Language header) with English as a
fallback.  (The setting should be under Edit->Preferences->Advanced->
Languages in Firefox).

In terms of automatically detecting based on IP.  This could probably be
done with mod_geoip, but I'm not that comfortable with mapping countries
to languages, etc.  I think Accept-Language + manual choice gives a good
balance.

Thanks,
Ricky