> From: to...@tuxteam.de > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > On Mon, Jul 10, 2017 at 08:57:35AM -0500, David Wright wrote: >> On Mon 10 Jul 2017 at 13:32:00 (+0000), Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: >> > On Dom, 09 Jul 2017, tomas wrote: >> > >So I think the top menu only reacts to the preferred language set in >> > >the browser. The wiki content itself obeys both the URL (i.e. the >> > >intercalated /fr/ element) and to the browser preference. >> > > >> > >Does this correspond with your findings? >> > >> > That"s also what happens here. >> >> … which is as I would expect it. >> >> However, I"m only _guessing_ that these pages are active in some way, > You mean... server-side active, I guess. > [...] >> I haven"t seen an actual problem expressed by anyone about what is >> displayed. Is there one, other than a casual observation? > Not a real problem. Just a behaviour that confused the original > poster (I think it was Fungi4All): if your browser lang is "X" > and you click on the page"s link for lang "Y" and you get a top > menu in "Xish" and a content in "Yish". The link provided by (was > it Brian?) in this thread seems to indicate that this confusion > happens more than once. > For people who don"t know the browser has a language preferences > setting (and perhaps have no idea about all that HTTP content > negotiation stuff), that might be a bit... surprising, leading > some to guess that there is an IP-based shenanigan behind the > scenes. > The confused are hardly to be blamed, given the tendency of > late to keep users as stupid as possible :-/ > Regards > - -- tomás
I, the OP, have no abilities in German of French, nor do I have these languages in my browser. I noticed that the wiki, while it was displaying the default Englsh text, the menus were on a 4th language. Upon the suggestion to disable scripts, I used my trusty secure browser with a French IP and tried. When I selected French just for testing, the menus remained English. When I selected German it was all German, to me. The more languages you select the funkier and more inconsistent the results were. In some languages you may click a link and revert back to English, possibly because of the page being in another english default server. No matter what is at fault the wiki server results are inconsistent.
