: Browsers and number of languages I'm looking for an interesting metric regarding browsers and languages. I'm looking for, broken down by country, the average number of languages a user's browser

@Si4351233

There is currently no form of overall metric which identifies average browser languages by country. The issue here is that while the Accept-Language lets the server know what the users preferred language is (browser settings) this is more used by some websites for localisation but not always. Additionally using the UTF-8 character set you can just about represent any character in any language without worrying about the Accept-Language or for that matter any header sent by the browser.

As an example look no further than Google translate. Now I don't have any language packs installed on my computer (Windows 7, Google Chrome) but if I do an English to Arabic translation using Google Translate I can see the Arabic text clear as day with no additional languages needing to be loaded to the site.

English: hi how are you
Arabic: اهلا كيف انت

If you want to know how many browsers support multi-lingual documents then the answer is just about all as most browsers (and all major ones) support UTF-8 which is a multi-lingual supported character set, and this is set by the server by adding the <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;charset=UTF-8"> to your document head.

As you can see this would preclude any sort of analytics on the percentage of browsers by country that support different languages. A better question would be what languages to browsers request as a percentage based on country and the answer I'm afraid is it all depends on the users preference.

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