Eric_Jarvis - 8:34 pm on May 14, 2004 (gmt 0)

I've just posted an explanation of my favoured system in the Asian Search Engines Forum

basically you need to look up content negotiation...this will allow a visitor to be directed to a page according to their browser settings...however not everyone will want to read the site in the language they have set the browser to (eg if they are in an Internet cafe, visiting a client/supplier abroad and using their desktop etc)...so ONLY use content negotiation on index.html in each language and direct all internal links to a home page to default.html

use a language switching page that covers all the languages offered...on that you need the two letter language code, the type of encoding, the name of the language in that language and in English, and a short piece of descriptive text as spider food