How: Getting user's language

[jbegham]

Hi group,

I just looking for a way to receive the user's language to offer him a language fitting to his settings.

If I use the predefined

HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE

what does this variable offers? Is it the language of the user's browser or of the web-server, where the site is running?

Could anybody give me some information about this or alternative ways to get the user's language.

TIA
John

[Weedpacket]

Originally posted by jbegham
If I use the predefined

HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE

what does this variable offers? Is it the language of the user's browser or of the web-server, where the site is running?
[/B]

Well, since the server doesn't need to accept any language from the browser (only http requests), it should be fairly clear that the Accept-Language header is sent by the browser to the server.

What it contains can be found by (a) experimentation, including fiddling with the language settings on your browser, or (b) consulting a reasonable HTTP standards document such as that offered at www.w3c.org and www.ietf.org/

For another method of finding users' preferred languages - try asking them.