https://www.webmaster-forums.net/crss/node/1025718 en https://www.webmaster-forums.net/webmasters-corner/regional-microsites-choose-your-country-origin#comment-1155984 <p>I used to run a website that automatically chose the right regional page based on the user's IP address.. it's not hard to install but you can expect good results. We used to use a properietary solution but you might want to have a look at MaxMind's GeoIP database which also comes with its own API if I recall correctly: <a href="http://www.maxmind.com/app/products" class="bb-url">http://www.maxmind.com/app/products</a></p> <p>As for japanese and mandarin character sets I'd have to guess... never done that myself. However german is no problem at all. There aren't many special characters in german and those few which are there can be displayed using html entities:</p> <p>Ä---&Auml;<br /> ä---&auml;<br /> Ö---&Ouml;<br /> ö---&ouml;<br /> Ü---&Uuml;<br /> ü---&uuml;<br /> ß---&szlig;</p> Mon, 02 Aug 2004 20:26:27 +0000 Brian911 comment 1155984 at https://www.webmaster-forums.net