Re: Multiple language efforts?
wmperry@spry.com
Fri, 21 Apr 1995 15:00:56 +0500
Alan Batie writes:
> I'm wondering if anyone has other options for dealing with multiple language
> content management. The "obvious", but not very appealing, solutions are to
> have separate logical content trees, whether on the same server or not, and
> whether in parallel directory trees or in the same directories. A suggestion
> was recently made to me that it would be nice if the browsers could select a
> "preferred" language, and retrieve that if available, else retrieve the
> default. I know that something similar is already possible with respect to
> images, but I don't think it's really used --- the server doesn't send back
> the embedded images unless the browser asks for them anyhow. Thoughts?
I'm pretty sure you can do this with the cern server via
content-negotiation and the Accept-Language parameter. I don't have my
docs with me right now though, so I can't check. Anyone else have any
thoughts?
-Bill P.