However. as the proportion of web users shifts from Europe/North America to East Asia and other areas [www.internetworldstats.com/stats.htm], all websites and web users will require that websites offer multilingual interfaces. (See Figures 2 and 3 on page 23.) This shifting language tide began to turn in 2000, according to Global Reach (now called Guava A/S [www.guava.co.uk]), which found that the