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Tangential rant: Anything that tries to second-guess what user meant is doomed for failure in some (not even so obscure) cases I prefer all my UI in English, b
by dgan 2y ago
Tangential rant:
Anything that tries to second-guess what user meant is doomed for failure in some (not even so obscure) cases
I prefer all my UI in English, because it's easier to navigate settings. But i also hate when google tries to be smart and (poorly) auto translates the reviews in Maps from one of the languages I fluently speak, to English. I didn't find any way to separate those settings.
Also, i believe, Libre Office tries to deduce the monetary units from OS settings, and forces me to changes dollars to euros.
Just ask me what i want!
- jumasheff 2y agoWhat's annoying is that Google is forcing me to use some of its products in Russian which is offensive to me!
- dgan 2y agoExplain? Why can't you use English for example?
- andylynch 2y agoSometimes Google seems / seemed to decide its idea of your location should trump your browser or even account settings. At one point our (Swiss, in England) office often had Google.com deciding we should be reading in Polish. Never really understood why.
- jumasheff 2y agoIn my settings I applied Kyrgyz as my primary language and English as the second one: https://imgz.org/iCtBEEby.png https://imgz.org/iCtBEEby.png For some reason Google decides that I prefer Russian even if I am forcing it to use English (assuming that `?hl=en` switches the interface language): https://imgz.org/i36byD3g.png https://imgz.org/i36byD3g.png
- throw__away7391 2y agoIf only there was some two decades old standardized way for users to specify which languages they prefer, and, dare I dream, the order and relative level of preference.