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Can you explain your setup by example? I don't get it. Your Chrome is using english for menues but your are natively speaking "france" for example? Can you exp

Can you explain your setup by example? I don't get it. Your Chrome is using english for menues but your are natively speaking "france" for example? Can you explain why your are not switching Chrome to use "France" as your default language?

sanxiyn 13y ago
I speak Korean. For me, it's a personal taste. I actually set Accept-Language to Korean even if my browser UI is English. This is becoming less a problem than in the past, but consider the case that your browser of choice is not available in your language of choice. For example, you speak Korean but there is no Korean version of the browser. Then it is natural to have English browser UI with preference for Korean content. More commonly, the browser may be available in your language but translation can be incomplete (only half the menu is translated, etc.), wrong (two different menu items are translated same -- did and does happen), or ugly (your language is going through the turbulent time debating how best to translate computer terms, and browser was translated by particularly opinionated people whose opinion you disagree with). Or some site may have compatibility problem with localized browser (getting rarer, but was problematic in the past). Or...
- Lorenz-Kraft 13y ago
  Actually i still don't get it. The two described use cases result in a "Accept-Language" header that will be send to the server. So its the best choice to deliver the content in the language that the "Accept-Language" header says to use. If we are talking about location based content, for example sports news, its a slightly different story and needs a additional user option, or forced user option (like netflix videos that are only allowed to be viewed in US).
sanxiyn 13y ago
What I have written so far is based on my direct experience. Here are some other cases: You absolutely need to run program X, which only runs on English version of Windows. (Developers of program X do not know nor care about internationalization). Therefore you run English version of Internet Explorer. Older versions of Internet Explorer only sends language(en) without sending locale(en-US). You speak English, live in England (or India), and don't want to get US page. You are bilingual (remember, lots of people outside US are bilingual), for example live in India and speak English and "mother tongue" very well. You prefer English for computer user interface, but prefer content in local languages.

sanxiyn 13y ago

I speak Korean. For me, it's a personal taste. I actually set Accept-Language to Korean even if my browser UI is English. This is becoming less a problem than in the past, but consider the case that your browser of choice is not available in your language of choice. For example, you speak Korean but there is no Korean version of the browser. Then it is natural to have English browser UI with preference for Korean content. More commonly, the browser may be available in your language but translation can be incomplete (only half the menu is translated, etc.), wrong (two different menu items are translated same -- did and does happen), or ugly (your language is going through the turbulent time debating how best to translate computer terms, and browser was translated by particularly opinionated people whose opinion you disagree with). Or some site may have compatibility problem with localized browser (getting rarer, but was problematic in the past). Or...

Lorenz-Kraft 13y ago
Actually i still don't get it. The two described use cases result in a "Accept-Language" header that will be send to the server. So its the best choice to deliver the content in the language that the "Accept-Language" header says to use. If we are talking about location based content, for example sports news, its a slightly different story and needs a additional user option, or forced user option (like netflix videos that are only allowed to be viewed in US).

sanxiyn 13y ago

What I have written so far is based on my direct experience. Here are some other cases: You absolutely need to run program X, which only runs on English version of Windows. (Developers of program X do not know nor care about internationalization). Therefore you run English version of Internet Explorer. Older versions of Internet Explorer only sends language(en) without sending locale(en-US). You speak English, live in England (or India), and don't want to get US page. You are bilingual (remember, lots of people outside US are bilingual), for example live in India and speak English and "mother tongue" very well. You prefer English for computer user interface, but prefer content in local languages.