Information on Pages Available in Multiple Languages

Several documents of our web site, are available in different languages (mostly Italian and English).

This document (available in Italian as well) explains how to set the preferred language in your browser.

Setting the Preferred Language in your Browser

To set the default language in your browser you have to set a variable that gets passed to the web server. How this is done depends on the browser you are using.

lynx

You can either edit the preferred_language variable in your .lynxrc or set it using the 'O' command while in lynx.

netscape 3.x

Add

*httpAcceptLanguage: [preferred_language string]

to the Netscape app-defaults file or ~/.Xresources

netscape 4.x

Use

Edit -> Preferences -> Navigator -> Languages

Make sure you select the language from the choices. A number of people reported problems because they typed in the language by hand.

Mozilla

Edit -> Preferences -> Navigator -> Languages

W3 (emacs based web browser)

(setq url-mime-language-string  "preferred_language=it; q=1.0, en; q=0.5")

or using the custom package (assuming URL version p4.0pre.14):

Hypermedia -> URL -> Mime -> Mime Language String...

IE ??

View -> Internet Options -> General/Languages

IE 5

Tools (or Extras) -> Internet Options -> Languages

Opera

Windows: File -> Preferences -> Languages

Linux: File -> Preferences -> Document -> Languages

iCab

Edit -> Preferences -> Browser -> Fonts,Languages

W3M

Options (o) -> Other Behavior -> Accept-Language

What should I set the variable to?

Not all documents of our web site may be available into your preferred language, it is a good idea to set your preferred language variable to allow English or Italian as a backups. For example, if you are a native French speaker using lynx, you would want the following line in your .lynxrc

preferred_language=it; q=1.0, en; q=0.5

For more information about setting the preferred_language variable see the Apache documentation on content negotiation.