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> Or, perhaps just the blissful America-centric ignorance about how there are regions in the world where there are multiple official languages As a brit, I am

> Or, perhaps just the blissful America-centric ignorance about how there are regions in the world where there are multiple official languages As a brit, I am always irked that most of what I browse is locked to US English, as if it's the same thing as British English. At least if your main language is a popular non-English language you get the option to switch to it. This is compounded by those location drop-downs, Where United States is always in the special top slot, and below that is everywhere else on the planet, like second rate-citizens. It's especially egregious on global sites, that serve global content.

jsjohnst 5y ago
> This is compounded by those location drop-downs, Where United States is always in the special top slot This used to be the case, but it seems to be becoming rare. It’s really annoying actually as alphabetically United States is way down in the list. This is how IP geolocation should be used imho, bubble up the probable location(s) to the top of the list, but DON’T assume the geo is right without asking.
- zarzavat 5y ago
  While we are complaining about this, can we all agree that using plain <select> for country is an anti pattern. There should be a fuzzy search. So many times I have to search for my country under United Kingdom UK Britain Great Britain England Only to find that it was “Great Britain” but collated in the B’s amongst Bhutan and Belgium, etc.
  - logifail 5y ago
    > So many times I have to search for my country under [...] It's even better when you have to explain this specific oddity in a foreign language. Try politely explaining to a German consular official that they probably need to look in their system's drop-down box under 'V' for 'Vereinigtes* Königreich' [UK] (instead of 'E' for 'England' or indeed 'G' for 'Großbritannien' [GB]) as they are attempting to enter passport details... * 'United', in German...
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M2Ys4U 5y ago
We once added internationalisation to our app. Being British developers, our English was British English so that's what was in the language picker. We had a very angry American (presumably) who accused us of "cultural imperialism" for having an en-GB option but no en-US option. Got to say I was laughing about that for quite some time.

jsjohnst 5y ago

> This is compounded by those location drop-downs, Where United States is always in the special top slot This used to be the case, but it seems to be becoming rare. It’s really annoying actually as alphabetically United States is way down in the list. This is how IP geolocation should be used imho, bubble up the probable location(s) to the top of the list, but DON’T assume the geo is right without asking.

zarzavat 5y ago
While we are complaining about this, can we all agree that using plain <select> for country is an anti pattern. There should be a fuzzy search. So many times I have to search for my country under United Kingdom UK Britain Great Britain England Only to find that it was “Great Britain” but collated in the B’s amongst Bhutan and Belgium, etc.
- logifail 5y ago
  > So many times I have to search for my country under [...] It's even better when you have to explain this specific oddity in a foreign language. Try politely explaining to a German consular official that they probably need to look in their system's drop-down box under 'V' for 'Vereinigtes* Königreich' [UK] (instead of 'E' for 'England' or indeed 'G' for 'Großbritannien' [GB]) as they are attempting to enter passport details... * 'United', in German...
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M2Ys4U 5y ago

We once added internationalisation to our app. Being British developers, our English was British English so that's what was in the language picker. We had a very angry American (presumably) who accused us of "cultural imperialism" for having an en-GB option but no en-US option. Got to say I was laughing about that for quite some time.