> From: to...@tuxteam.de >> It"s probably based not on your IP, but on headers sent by your browser >> (Accept-Language or something like that). There should be somewhere in >> the settings where you can change that. At least on Firefox there is. > I can confirm that (tested on https://wiki.debian.org). Depending on > the language preferences set on my browser (en resp. fr), I stay on > the default, English or get redirected to the French version, /fr/.
It is not consistent though, with scripts-off if you pick french from the main page the content will become french but the top menus stay EN. If you pick a link (installation rapide) the headers stay in EN. If you try the same with DE then all of it is German. This is with a French IP. So it is not the IP but some language cookie that throws it off? I guess if you use a lesser browser than mozilla weird things happen, I accept that the IP speculation was unsubstantiated. But the inconsistency remains. > So I don"t see any IP based language choice on wiki.debian.org, just > one based on HTTP content negotiation (and thus on client choice), as > it Should Be (TM). > DISCLAIMER: I only tested without Javascript. I (mostly) browse with > Javascript disabled. > @Fungi4All: if you are interested in constructive discussions and not > just in ranting off, please describe what you are seeing, at least > with an URL for people to try to reproduce what you are seeing. I thought I did, wiki.debian.org but here is a specific one https://wiki.debian.org/fr/QuickInstall Is the top menu in English or French. On my instance the content was english but the menus were not
