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Related: over-internationalization. Just because I’m browsing from an IP address that appears to be in Germany, doesn’t mean that I want your site autotranslate
by MandieD 5y ago
Related: over-internationalization. Just because I’m browsing from an IP address that appears to be in Germany, doesn’t mean that I want your site autotranslated into German with no way to switch back, even when I type “/en” or take other active measures to indicate that no, I really do want to read it in the original English.
I also don’t want to be protected from seeing English-language content you’ve not yet translated to German by being popped over to the German homepage when I clicked a link to an article that’s only in English.
- theshrike79 5y agoBrowsers have the Accept-Language header just for this. You can provide a list of languages, in order of preference, for the site to decide what you want to see. But nope. No-one uses it. (I know, I have had it set for a decade at least.) This is even worse when I run a service on a VPS in France and I get pages in French, just because of the location.