This tutorial is not a web/html primer and assumes that you already know how the process of "web surfing" is accomplished (i.e. a browser requests a page from a server which then returns the page to be viewed), what an HTML "form" is and how it works, and what a link "target" is. If you are not familiar with these concepts please read a basic web/html primer.

Contents Overview Supported Languages Translation Credits

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Overview

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To change the language of the search result prompts it is necessary to add an additional html tag to your search panel. This html tag specifies the language for the prompts.

As an example, if you wanted to change your search result prompts to Spanish, you would add the tag:
   <input type="hidden" name="lang" value="es">
to your search panel. This tag must be placed after the search panel's initial
   <form ...
tag and before it's ending
   </form>
tag, otherwise it will not work.

We recommend using a text editor to modify your search panel as many HTML editors modify added html code without notifying you, resulting in unpredictable results.

Some languages require explicitly specifying a "charset" to be used for the results page. This can be done by using the templates feature of the search engine (see Using Templates for the Best Look).

If the language code ("es", "fr", "it", etc) is not recognized or supported, English prompts will be used.

Note that currently the web search results always show English prompts.

Supported Languages

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The following lists the currently supported languages. Where a "charset" is specified, the search results needs to use a template to explicitly set the indicated charset (see Using Templates for the Best Look).

If the language you are looking for is not here and you are a native speaker willing to do the translation, please contact us.

Translation Credits

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The following people translated or contributed to the translation of the search prompts:

Adam Roberto Albanesi Sebastian Brinkmann Radu Capan Ferran Clavell Sorin Cosma Alex Dantart Hakan Dogan Stan Drozdowski

Juergen Hinrichs-Roehring Angus Ho Xu Huimin Alexander Kachanov Olga Kapnitsi Kim Malchau M. R. Mallee Yaroslav Neveliuk

Lars Christian Ragus Eddy Ribeyrol Thomas Riesler Antonin Slejska Slavko Todorov Levente Vero Yan Andre Zielasko

We thank them for their assistance!