Abstract: The present invention discloses a method for making web servers more language independent by scanning the HTML files therein for unique language dependent text phrases and replacing these phrases with unique identities leaving the language independent content unchanged. The unique language dependent text phrases are stored in separate text phrase files. These files are translated into a number of desired browser languages resulting in one set for each language. When receiving a request for a file, the web server scans the file for unique identities, and, if any, fetches the corresponding text phrases from one or more files in the set of files being translated to the language of the browser used by the requesting terminal. Then, the web server provides the requesting terminal with a response comprising the file wherein the found unique identities are replaced by the fetched text phrases. In this way, only one set of IITML pages common for all languages is needed in addition to text phrase files.