User language detection

[stonebuzz]

I was wondering if there was a way to implement dynamic location detection, so that if a user is,in france, the plugin will detect their region and redirect the user to https://my_doc/fr/ (and a fallback to /en/ if desired language is not available).

I use the mkdocs-static-i18n plugin, but it doesn't allow automatic detection.

Best regards

[alexvoss]

I could not find a mkdocs plugin for this. It certainly should be possible to do this using some JavaScript, perhaps to forward to a language version absent a user choice? I would hesitate to recommend an approach but definitely look at navigator.languages. StackOverflow may be your friend there.

[stonebuzz]

Thanks for your reply

Best regards

[alexvoss]

You're welcome. Feel free to ask follow-on questions if necessary. I imagine that developing a generic version might be a bit of work and there might be question arising but perhaps what I have pointed you at is sufficient for your use case.

[ztheory]

Using the user-agent data to detect the language of the browser is the way to go, rather than IP geolocation.

Example user agent field/value in the request headers:
Accept-Language: en-US,en;q=0.5