David, > I've seen a similar problem some where else, and I cannot remember in > which context it was. Shouldn't the language selected in the System > Preferences be the actual default?
It is. Camino uses the order of languages you have specified in the International Preferences pane to send the accept-language HTTP header, which is how sites should determine which language to return. You can see the accept-language header your browser is sending by visiting a page like http://gemal.dk/browserspy/accept.php. Camino no longer uses the regional or location settings to determine anything about language. There is a known bug in some web servers (especially .NET based ones) that don't properly cope with some combinations of generic English and dialect-English (e.g. "Canadian English") correctly. We fixed this on the branch recently, see bug 300905. The best advice for your accept language headers (if English is your first language) is: - Make your preferred version of English (probably "Canadian English") your top setting - Make generic "English" your next language - List other languages you speak in declining order of fluency - Delete any languages you have no hope of speaking Note that we have had some problems with sites setting a language cookie based on the wrong language, and then the language always being wrong even after people correct their settings. This doesn't sound like what's happening to you, but it may be worth deleting cookies from the site first just to be sure. > I guess I'm just lucky that I wasn't getting documentation alternating > in English, Spanish, Dutch etc... :) That probably means the site doesn't have translations available in those languages. (On the server its possible (at least in theory) to have several languages and to tag these with the quality of their translation; the server should then send the language that has the best combination of "quality of translation" and "fluency of user".) I hope that helps. If it doesn't try posting your accept-language header (see above) and see if other people can reproduce. Cheers, -Bruce -- Bruce Davidson _______________________________________________ Camino mailing list [email protected] http://mozdev.org/mailman/listinfo/camino
