Browser language detection

[gwheelo]

I am playing around with a browser language detection scheme to automatically display in one of my offered languages: English, French, Dutch, German, Spanish, and Catalan.

English is the default and I know that works. I would appreciate anyone using one of the other five languages to give the test page a try with various browsers, IE, Firefox, Chrome, Opera...

Give it a whirl please and let me know how it works for you.

http://www.wheelocknet.net/cam/index_code_1.htm

Here is the javascript:

if ( window.navigator.language ) // Firefox and Opera
{
var lang_code = window.navigator.language;
}
else if ( navigator.browserLanguage ) // Internet Explorer, of course MS has to different
{
var lang_code = navigator.browserLanguage;
}
else // We don't know
{
var lang_code = null;
}

var posted_opt=lang_code.substring(0,2);

switch(posted_opt) {
case 'en' : posted_opt = "gb";break;
case 'fr' : posted_opt = "fr";break;
case 'nl' : posted_opt = "nl";break;
case 'de' : posted_opt = "de";break;
case 'es' : posted_opt = "es";break;
case 'ca' : posted_opt = "ct";break;
default : posted_opt = "gb";break;
}
select_lang(posted_opt );Thanks for your time.


All suggestions and corrections are very welcome.

Thanks for you time.

George Wheelock
http://www.wheelocknet.net/cumulus/gauges.html?gb

[TNETWeather]

Seems to work for me... though I rarely use JavaScript.

I would have coded the logic a bit different to get away from the nested else's which get confusing (again, I am not a JavaScript programmer):

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// Start out with Unknown
var lang_code = en;

// Firefox and Opera
if ( window.navigator.language ) {
    var lang_code = window.navigator.language;
}

// Internet Explorer, of course MS has to different
if ( navigator.browserLanguage ) {
    var lang_code = navigator.browserLanguage;
}

var posted_opt=lang_code.substring(0,2);

switch(posted_opt) {
    case 'en' : posted_opt = "gb";break;
    case 'fr' : posted_opt = "fr";break;
    case 'nl' : posted_opt = "nl";break;
    case 'de' : posted_opt = "de";break;
    case 'es' : posted_opt = "es";break;
    case 'ca' : posted_opt = "ct";break;
    default : posted_opt = "gb";break;
}
select_lang(posted_opt );

[gwheelo]

Seems to work for me...

Thanks for the code tip!

Anyone out there with a native language other than English?

gwheelo

http://www.wheelocknet.net/cam/index_code_1.htm