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Re: Don't guess my language

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> You don’t override screen resolution or color scheme with your own guess They absolutely do lol. Like it or not, people like you are outnumbered by people who set their Accept-Language header wrong and don't know how to fix it. Those people probably buy more too (or at least buy more that shows up in tracking, since you sound like the kind of person who disables cookies etc. too).

> Like it or not, people like you are outnumbered by people who set their Accept-Language header wrong and don't know how to fix it.

I challenge you to find one person that matches that description.

Re: Don't guess my language

#392
post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> people like you are outnumbered by people who set their Accept-Language header wrong and don't know how to fix it Is this actually something that you can back up with data, or are you just guessing? I find it hard to imagine that would be the case, considering this header generally gets populated by the user's system locale/language.

Actually, yes. Google and Facebook invests in translation significantly more than Microsoft in languages in Africa and Asia (to the point that you cannot set Windows do not have that language in question), for example, the various non-colonial languages in the African continent. In those countries, the computer is set to English/French because not of practicality but of significantly broken/no translation by Microsof…

This doesn't explain why Google then also uses their crappy heuristics in countries whose languages are well supported by all major operating systems and browsers.
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