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This is the worst. I was in France recently and tons of mobile websites were just suddenly in French. It was a real chore to read through them, and I can only i
by ch4s3 2y ago
This is the worst. I was in France recently and tons of mobile websites were just suddenly in French. It was a real chore to read through them, and I can only imagine how frustrating this is when you can't read the language put in front of you at all.
- ryandrake 2y agoThis is always infuriating, because browsers send the Accept-Language header, that these sites just ignore.
- estebank 2y agoThe thing I don't get is that there are plenty of Googlers traveling internationally. They've been aware of the problem for over a decade now, yet it persists. If I'm traveling from Spain to Poland with a browser set to use UK-English, why would the site immediately switch to Polish? It makes no sense that this common corner case isn't addressed at all after all this time. At the very least sites that do this should detect that there's a mismatch between expected language given geolocation and the header and have a toast notification about how to change the language settings back manually.
- ch4s3 2y agoJust imagine the mess in Belgium!