htaccess redirection for language support

[sfullman]

this is a pretty simple request but I'm not that familar with mod_rewrite to know how

I want to have a call to this page:

/fr/about_greg.php

to ignore the subfolder and instead just serve up the page

about_greg.php

and so forth for all pages on the site.

From there I can read the redirect url and determine that the actual language desired is french (or de=german etc.)

How would I do this? Thank you very much for your help and knowledge.

Sam

[Derokorian]

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /

RewriteRule ^([a-z]{2})/(.*)$ $2?lang=$1 

This will turn the fake subfolder, into a get variable $_GET['lang'] or atleast that's what I would think it does I don't have my computer with me to test it atm (on my tablet)