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But then, that's not worse, because geoip would already be forcing those users into a language they potentially don't speak by not listening to their device. O
by dijit 2y ago
But then, that's not worse, because geoip would already be forcing those users into a language they potentially don't speak by not listening to their device.
Or your library has somehow misconfigured their PCs when setting them up?
A cookie based override already exists, forcing geoip is strictly worse as a default, except for localising currency? I guess.
- shadowgovt 2y agoAs a default, geoip is remarkably effective. When you didn't know anything about the user, geography is a pretty decent predictor of language.
- dijit 2y agoBut, the users browser is telling you the language they speak!!!
- shadowgovt 2y agoThat's the problem: too often, it is not. https://www.reddit.com/r/webdev/comments/7a2cfe/comment/dp772us/ https://www.reddit.com/r/webdev/comments/7a2cfe/comment/dp77... for details: there are a lot of reasons speakers more comfortable with another language will have their OS locale (and therefore the accept-language header) set to English.