I've ranted about this exact same problem a year ago and IMHO it goes even further than just geolocation for websites, but it's also a problem with desktop appl

I've ranted about this exact same problem a year ago and IMHO it goes even further than just geolocation for websites, but it's also a problem with desktop applications that use the locale to determine UI language which is inconvenient and in some times even confusing as it mixes the application's UI that's in one language with UI from the OS that's in another language - sometimes even in the same dialog. My old rant is here for those interested: http://www.gnegg.ch/2008/09/automatic-language-detection/ http://www.gnegg.ch/2008/09/automatic-language-detection/