web page redirect by language

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hi,

my website has 2 languages: half pages are english, others are in chinese.

people tell me that there is a script which could re-direct the incoming visitor to the appropriate pages, depending on the language of the operating system.

could anybody give me a hint?

thanks

Joseph
website:

english: 24gt.com/index.htm
chinese: 24gt.com
#programming #language #page #redirect #web
  • Hi,

    it's possible, but what script your site is written with: php, asp, asp.net or other ?
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    • Have you thought about doing any targeting of customers depending on the geographic location based on their IP address?

      This way if a person comes from a Chinese speaking country you can redirect them to the chinese pages, and if not, send them to the english pages..

      There are some free as well as paid GeoIP services that help you achieve this..

      Take care and hope this helps

      Bruce
  • Hello Joseph,
    You can either implement a free program on your server like Maxmind, or you can provide a choice on the first page, "Select your language." Major websites like ups.com do this.

    There might be other ways using scripts to inspect the language settings of the browser connecting to your website, but these two ideas will probably do the trick. Good luck and let us know what happens.
  • I read something today that said that China and India have more combined English speaking people than the USA and Canada. The article said that English is a required class and that 50 million new students learn English every year in China. I don't know how true or not that is, but it really surprised me. I like the suggestion of giving people a choice on the first page. Some might know English but prefer to see the pages in Chinese, and others might want to see the English version. Having the script try to make the decision for them might not make sense.
  • Hi,

    Another option you might consider is getting your web server to serve a specific page depending on the language requested by the client browser i.e. a chinese visitor is delivered a page in chinese and an english speaker is delivered a page in english automatically by the web server.

    The following link describes this better (for apache) Language support in Apache through negotiation

    Hope this is of help
    Byron
  • Googgle maxmind geo targetting , you will a free tool to do that. But it requires a bit of programming. PM me if ou would like to spend some bucks.

    Thanks
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