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Well, it generally mimics your OS settings, so why is it inaccurate? The worst case is pages displaying in the same language as the rest of my computer.
by phn 9y ago
Well, it generally mimics your OS settings, so why is it inaccurate?
The worst case is pages displaying in the same language as the rest of my computer.
- Eridrus 9y agoThere's a long tail of mobile browsers out there. I also don't know how many people have OS settings that differ from their real language preference due to poor OS support for their language (e.g. what this article talks about - how many users run en-US to get features that Win10/Android/etc doesn't do well in their language) I mean, there are reasonable arguments either way here IMO and without actual data, e.g. how often users change their language from one or the other, it's hard to know what is better in the long tail. And obviously users should be able to change their preference if we get it wrong.
- gcp 9y agoI also don't know how many people have OS settings that differ from their real language preference due to poor OS support for their language Why would these people be badly served by being sent pages corresponding to their OS language? It's clearly preferable for them over poor localization.