2015-05-29 20:34 GMT+03:00 Marc Joliet <mar...@gmx.de>: > Am Fri, 29 May 2015 19:34:03 +0300 > schrieb gevisz <gev...@gmail.com>: > >> Firefox is compiled without any linguas set. >> NLS support disabled globally in make.conf. >> And still, while right-clicking on youtube videos >> in firefox, I get menu in one of the easten-europian >> languages. :( > > This may very well be outside of the control of the browser. I don't know for > sure how it works, but as I understand it, websites *can* determine your > location (or try to) and adapt themselves accordingly.
May be. But I have just tried the same from Google Chrome and got the same menu in English. > For example, I'm in northern Germany and in the past I would > sometimes get the dutch localisation of youtube, and IMDB > always shows me the terrible German titles of movies, even > in links in English comments. That's just bad website design, > at least in my opinion. But why a change of a browser solves the issue? > Actually, after I wrote that, I decided to look in the Firefox settings, and > presto: you can set the preferred locales for websites (under the "content" > tab, or whatever it's called in English)! That fixed IMDB for me, maybe it'll > work for you? If you mean Firefox Preferences > Content > Languages > Choose..., I have only the English language there. May be I should dig into about:config, but from the first look I could not find there anything related to my problem either. > I don't think you've answered this yet: is this the only situation where you > get the wrong locale, or does it happen in *native* applications, too? Yes, this is the only situation I met. However the set of applications I use is quite limited. > Marc Joliet > -- > "People who think they know everything really annoy those of us who know we > don't" - Bjarne Stroustrup
