JP2002108749A - Method for selecting language in web reading and method for prescribing priority of language in web reading - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a language selecting method which can automatically switch a language during web reading. SOLUTION: The method enables a browser to display contents of a web page corresponding to a web page dynamic program according to a language set in the browser that a user uses. Further, this method provides a function of setting the priority of the display language for the user, so a web page provided in a different language can be displayed according to the setting that the user prescribes.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a method for selecting a language while browsing the Web, and more particularly to a method for displaying the contents of a Web page according to a language version in a browser or a setting of a language priority set by a user.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art By combining multimedia with the World Wide Web (WWW), people can publish favorite materials through homepages created by individuals. Also, the Internet
It is also called cyberspace, which has been constructed by humans throughout as an information space.

[0003] In the above-mentioned global cyberspace, hundreds of millions of homepages are created in different languages such as English, Japanese, Spanish and French. To design better web pages, designers typically provide users with content for multiple different languages. The user can view the content in the correct language by selecting the language.

FIG. 1 is a flowchart showing a normal procedure for selecting a language while browsing the Web.

In general, when a user uses a browser 100 such as Microsoft (registered trademark) Internet Explorer or Netscape (registered trademark) navigator on a client to view certain information, the operating system 102 transmits the information to the operating system 102 via the client application program 101. When linking, and a dynamic data exchange function (DDE: dynamic
When information of a specific application program is transferred to another using data exchange function, the client application program 1
01 is an application program interface (API). Here, the DDE is a technique in which data created by a specific application is embedded in another application, and when the data is modified by the original application, the data at the destination is also automatically modified.

The operating system 102 (for example, an IBM® computer (IBM PC /
Windows NT (registered trademark) or Windows (registered trademark) 95/98 on an AT compatible machine, Macin
The MacOS® platform on a tosh® computer or UNIX® on a workstation) is built on a standard operating platform. A standard operating platform includes a central processing unit (CPU) 103, a storage medium 104, and a memory 1 to form a client capable of performing data access.
05 and the like.

The client further includes an input interface 106 for connecting to an input device 107, a display interface 108 for connecting to a display device 109, and a client communication interface 110 for connecting to the Internet 111.
The server communication interface 112 is connected to a server application program 113 for displaying web page content 114 stored on the server. Currently, the web page content provider determines the languages to be supported and provides language selection means 115 to meet the different language requirements by the client.
For example, the user may have a web page 11 based on English.
6. A web page 117 based on Japanese or a web page 118 based on French can be selected.

However, in the above technique, when a user from another country wants to enter a web page, the user must first enter a home page and select a desired language. This choice of language each time wastes a lot of time. Also, if the user's language ability is limited, the user often exits the website without knowing how to click the icon for the correct language conversion. Therefore, there is a strong demand on the Internet to automatically switch languages during web browsing.

[0009]

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The present invention has been made in view of the above circumstances, and provides a language selection method during web browsing that can automatically switch languages during web browsing, and a language during web browsing. The purpose is to provide a method for defining the priorities of companies.

[0010]

The above object of the present invention is achieved by the following means.

(1) A method for selecting a language during web browsing according to the present invention includes the steps of: providing a language code to a browser of a client; confirming the language code provided to the browser by a server application program; Checking whether the stored web page content supports the language based on the language code, and displaying the web page content in the language if the language is supported. .

(2) The client further includes a client application program that uses dynamic data exchange (DDE).

(3) The language code of the browser is related to the language of the browser.

(4) The server application program responds to the client application program using DDE.

(5) A method for defining a priority order of languages during web browsing according to the present invention includes a step of setting a priority order of a language to be displayed on a client and a step of confirming the priority order of the language by a server application program. Checking whether the content of the web page stored by the server supports the preferred language according to the priority; and, if the preferred language is supported, the content of the web page in the preferred language. And a step of displaying.

(6) The client further includes a client application program using DDE.

(7) The priorities relate to different language orders defined by the user.

(8) The server application program responds to the client application program using DDE.

[0019]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION An object of the present invention is to provide a method for selecting a language while browsing the Web. The method displays web page content in an appropriate language by associating the language present in the web browser of the user with the web page dynamic program. The web page dynamic program connects a server application program to a client communication interface selectively adapted for various languages.

The method according to the invention also provides a new version of the language code to the client's web browser. The method uses a server application program to check the language code and to determine whether the content of the server web page supports a language based on the language code. If the content of the server web page supports the language, the content of the web page is displayed in the language existing in the browser.

Another method according to the present invention further allows the user to set the priority of the language to be displayed, so that the web page content can be displayed from a plurality of different languages according to the user's setting. The method includes prioritizing the languages to be displayed on the client;
Checking the priority of the language by the server application program, checking whether the web page content of the server supports the preferred language, and displaying the web page content of the server in the language if it is supported Process.

Further, the scope of applicability of the present invention will become apparent in the contents described later. Hereinafter, a preferred embodiment of the present invention will be described in detail, and a detailed description and a specific embodiment will be given only by the drawings. However, the present invention is not limited to this and is within the scope of the technical idea of the present invention. Various changes and improvements can be made by those skilled in the art.

Hereinafter, the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the drawings, but the present invention is not limited by the drawings.

According to the disclosed method for language selection during web browsing, the web page content is automatically translated in the selected language, provided that the web page content supports the language selected on the client by the user. Can be loaded dynamically.

FIG. 2 shows a system configuration of language selection during web browsing according to the first embodiment of the present invention.

A user uses a browser 200 such as Microsoft Internet Explorer or Netscape Navigator on a client to view certain information, and operates the operating system 2 via a client application program 201.
02 and a dynamic data exchange function (DDE: dyn)
amic data exchange funti
on) to transfer information from one particular application program to another. Here, the client application program 201 is an application program interface (API).

The operating system 202 (eg, Windows NT or Windows 95/98 on an IBM computer, MacOS platform on a Macintosh computer, and UNIX on a workstation) is built on a standard operating platform. Standard operating platforms include a central processing unit (CPU) 203, a storage medium 204 and a memory 2 to form a client capable of performing data access.
05 is provided.

The client further includes an input device 207
, An input interface 206 for connecting to the display device 209, and a client communication interface 210 for connecting to the Internet 211. The server communication interface 212 is connected to the server application program 213.

Server application program 213
Performs dynamic data exchange (DDE) to respond to the client application program 201.
It then checks whether the content 214 of the web page supports the language provided by the user in advance and present in the browser. If not supported, web page content 215 in default language
Is displayed. On the other hand, if supported, web page content 216 is displayed in the language provided by the user to the browser.

The present invention further provides a system configuration for defining a language priority. FIG. 3 shows a system configuration according to a second embodiment of the present invention for setting the priority order of languages during web browsing.

When viewing certain information, the user uses a browser 100 such as Microsoft Internet Explorer or Netscape Navigator on the client, and sets priorities of the display language 300A in the client in advance. The clients are defined in different languages in the order that the user wants to see them.
When the user enters the client application program 30
Client application program 301 is an application program interface (API) when linking to operating system 302 via I.1 and using a dynamic data exchange (DDE) function to transfer information from one particular application program to another.

The operating system 302 (eg, Windows NT or Windows 95/98 on an IBM computer, MacOS platform on a Macintosh computer, and UNIX on a workstation) is built on a standard operating platform. Standard operating platforms include a central processing unit (CPU) 303, a storage medium 304, and a memory 3 to form a client capable of performing data access.
05 is provided.

The client further includes an input interface 306 for connecting to the input device 307, a display interface 308 for connecting to the display device 309, and a client communication interface 310 for connecting to the Internet 311.
The server communication interface 312 is connected to the server application program 313. The server application program 313 executes a dynamic data exchange (DDE) in order to respond to the client application program 301.

Then, it is checked whether or not the content 314 of the web page supports the language set by the user. If not,
Web page content 315 is displayed in a default language. On the other hand, if supported, the web page content 316 is displayed in the browser language version set by the user.

When the web page content 314 does not support a language with a higher priority, it may be checked whether or not the web page content 314 supports a language with the next highest priority. As described above, the languages in which the priorities are set are checked in descending order of the priorities, and if all of the languages are not supported, the content 315 of the web page can be displayed in the default language.

In conclusion, in the two embodiments of the present invention described above, the user can access the web in the appropriate language by automatic loading of the content corresponding to the language code provided by the browser, or according to the language in which the user has set priorities. The content of the page can be displayed on the browser.

FIG. 4 is a flowchart showing a procedure of a language selection method during web browsing according to the first embodiment of the present invention. The procedure includes a step of providing a language code to the browser of the client (step 400), a step of confirming a language based on the language code given to the browser by the server application program (step 401), Step of checking whether language is supported (step 40)
2). In addition, if the content of the server web page does not support the language in step 402, the method includes displaying the content of the web page in a default language (step 403), or the content of the server web page in step 402 If a language is supported, the method includes displaying the content of the web page in a language provided by the user and present in the browser (step 404).

FIG. 5 is a flowchart showing a procedure of a language priority setting method during web browsing according to the second embodiment of the present invention. The procedure includes a step of setting the display language priority in the client (step 5).
00) and a step of checking the priority of the language by the server application program (step 501);
Determining whether the content of the server web page supports the preferred language (step 502). And displaying the server web page content in a default language if the server web page content does not support the preferred language (step 503), or the server web page content supports the preferred language. And displaying the contents of the web page in the preferred language (step 504).

Although the present invention has been described above, it is evident that the same will vary in different ways. These changes are within the spirit of the invention and it is obvious to a person skilled in the art that all modifications are included within the scope of the appended claims.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a diagram showing a system configuration of language selection in normal web browsing.

FIG. 2 is a diagram illustrating a system configuration of language selection during web browsing according to the first embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 3 is a diagram showing a system configuration for setting a priority order of languages during web browsing according to a second embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 4 is a flowchart illustrating a flow of a language selection method during web browsing according to the first embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 5 is a flowchart showing a flow of a method for setting a priority order of languages during web browsing according to a second embodiment of the present invention.

[Explanation of symbols]

100, 200, 300 ... browser, 101, 201, 301 ... client application program, 102, 202, 302 ... OS, 110, 210, 310 ... client communication interface, 112, 212, 312 ... server communication interface, 113, 213, 313: Server application program.

Claims (8)

[Claims] 1. a step of providing a language code to a browser of a client; a step of confirming the language code given to the browser by a server application program; and a step in which a web page content stored in the server is based on the language code. A method of selecting a language during web browsing, comprising: checking whether a language is supported; and, if the language is supported, displaying web page content in the language. 2. The method according to claim 1, wherein the client further comprises a client application program that uses dynamic data exchange (DDE). 3. The method according to claim 1, wherein the language code of the browser is related to the language of the browser. 4. The method according to claim 1, wherein the server application program responds to the client application program using DDE. 5. A method for setting a priority of a language to be displayed on a client; a step of confirming a priority of the language by a server application program; Checking whether to support the preferred language; and, if supporting the preferred language, displaying the content of a web page in the preferred language. Priority ordering method. 6. The method according to claim 5, wherein the client further includes a client application program using DDE. 7. The method of claim 5, wherein the priority is related to a different language order defined by a user. 8. The method according to claim 5, wherein the server application program responds to the client application program using DDE.