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They don't have a language selector, they have a region selector which sets the appropriate currency, VAT (presumably), and also language, yes. It's an entirely
by Beltalowda 5y ago
They don't have a language selector, they have a region selector which sets the appropriate currency, VAT (presumably), and also language, yes. It's an entirely appropriate usage of flags.
- 3np 5y agoIt is not. I can be present in Germany and want my laptop delivered there. That does not mean I speak a word of German. Language and physical location are disjoint. Even worse when I know the original content is in English, my preferred language, but someone decides I only deserve the partial translation.
- schleck8 5y agoYou can switch the region then, it takes 3 seconds and persists across visits.
- 3np 5y agoSure, and now I can not select shipping destination "Germany" anymore, as somehow it's an impossibility to match the existing language contents and shipping destinations... This is such a frustrating trend. Google has already been mentioned as an offender - it is an annoying procedure to keep resetting the language for every fresh session - but at least their texts are mostly properly translated... Going to the Amazon site of my country (a smaller one where I am a native speaker of the language and most but not all products listing are machine-translated), I have to constantly change my language preferences to get the non-machine-translated version of various texts, as "prefer original language" doesn't seem to be a thing. Some things are just so hilariously wrong that doing this is the only way to make sense of everything. Oh, and they (framework) also force the currency tied to the nation. My credit card is not necessarily in the native currency of either my shipping destination or my preferred language. Just let us set all three independently, please :/ aliexpress and iherb are two sites that do this right.