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The problem is most users doesn't even know that you can set language preferences at the browser level.
by goto11 6y ago
The problem is most users doesn't even know that you can set language preferences at the browser level.
- gambiting 6y agoWhat do you mean? I don't think we're talking about language preference, simply about...language of the browser itself.
- marcus_holmes 6y agoThere's a setting for language preference that is set in the browser, and transmitted in every request header. This is the thing that we're talking about.
- gambiting 6y agoRight, I have no idea how it works(and I guess like was said, 99% of people don't), but as a user I'd reasonably expect that if I have my browser in English, my operating system in English, then I want to see websites in English.
- jobigoud 6y agoWe don't need to know how it works, it asks the web pages to serve content in that language, it's made explicitly for this use case. It should be the first choice. Second choice could be browser language.
- self_awareness 6y agoIf a user doesn't know about it, he probably has the browser set to his native language, which resolves the issue before it's an issue.
- juliushuijnk 6y agoI might be outlier, but I like my software interfaces to be in English. Keeps them all the same ('save all', etc) But I would rather consume content of a website in my native language. While I'm not complaining if it it will serve me English.
- macintux 6y agoHaving your software interface in English also makes it easier to find help when you’re confused by something.
- account42 6y agoFirefox has two separate settings for "Choose the languages used to display menus, messages, and notifications from Firefox." and "Choose your preferred language for displaying pages" so your use case should be covered by not second-guessing the user settings.
- innocenat 6y agoMaybe true in the West. Not totally true in a lot of countries where the OS is almost always in English despite the fact that user may not be able to comprehend English (they can read lone word just fine to operate menu and such)
- dwheeler 6y agoBy default browsers get that from the OS, and that was typically set on first boot. It's a very reliable signal.
- Symbiote 6y agoThis seems well within Google's (especially) ability to fix. They seem to rely on similar settings for knowing whether to bring up a "This page is in Polish. Do you want to translate it?" popup.