On Sat, 20 Oct 2001, Anand wrote: Yes, I got that on the second reading, but I don't think it's technically feasible. At NCST, we are doing a lot of work on natural language processing, and have some idea of the tasks required. My thought would be to implement it on the server and use multiviews to send the correct content. Since I have some time now, I'll go into details. When a browser makes a request to a server, it sends in the header lines like Accept-encoding and Accept-language: In the Accept-language header, it specifies a list of languages in descending order of preference in which it would like the content. For example, I may set my browser to request content in the order en fr es it de nl When I request a file called say content.html, the request to the server looks like this: GET /content.html HTTP/1.0 Accept-language: en fr es it de nl ... Let's say the server is configured with multiviews. It notices that the browser would like english content if possible, for content.html. It looks for a file called content.html.en, and if found, returns that as content.html. If not found, it looks for a file called content.html.fr, and proceeds until the end of the list, after which, it returns the default content.html that was present. Typically, the content developer would have to create content in all these languages, but, using something like babel fish, or the tools we develop at NCST, the server can be made to automatically create content for all pages based on the language required. We still have the problem of a single page having different content. This can be solved by actually specifying which content to use on the server side, using something like SSI. In any case, I do not think that this should be implemented at the client side at all. Storing a list of common phrases is not sufficient, as uncommon phrases are more common on the Internet. I know that sounds weird, but if you think about it, you'll notice that the two uses of common refer to different things. Philip -- Refreshed by a brief blackout, I got to my feet and went next door. -- Martin Amis, _Money_ Visit my webpage at http://www.ncst.ernet.in/~philip/ Read my writings at http://www.ncst.ernet.in/~philip/writings/ MSN philiptellis Yahoo! philiptellis AIM philiptellis ICQ 129711328