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Except you can't trust the en-US locale and basically need to treat it like NULL and fall back to ip based locations. The nice thing about real en-US users is
by hyperman1 3y ago
Except you can't trust the en-US locale and basically need to treat it like NULL and fall back to ip based locations.
The nice thing about real en-US users is they live all close together, and IP location really works well for them.
There are still a lot of exceptions and pissed of people, but less than when you believe the en-US locale means what it claims. So of course, make it stupendously easy to switch languages, both locale and ip based location are wrong a lot of the time.
This is one of those things where you can't really do it right, and you just try and minimize the number of people you anger.
- zinekeller 3y agoI agree with this - the web has evolved much faster than operating systems that most computers in other countries don't much have a choice but to set it to English (you might look at Windows and dispute this, but outside of some languages such as French and Japanese the translations are laughable and non-nonsensical with a side dish of Microsoft-branded hypocrisy when a government institution informed Microsoft and basically Microsoft replied with a letter equating to "F*** you! Our translations are correct!!!1!!"), learn what are the basic keywords of the OS, and use the web browser as their real operating system. You can't rely on en-US.