2015-05-30 14:31 GMT+03:00 <rhan...@gmx.de>: > On 30/05/15 14:07, gevisz wrote: >> >> I do not know how to do that. > > Go to [1], scroll to the bottom. There should be some settings for yt > language. > >> Yes, but according to the link, provided by Marc, it contains gettext >> instruction for its translation according to the locale set on the >> local computer. >> >> I get this issue for all youtube videos, either on youtube or embedded >> into the html code on other web-sites: right-clicking the video brings >> the menu in a non-English language. (One of its entries in English is >> "Get embedded code".) > > > No. It's about localizing web pages with gettext. gettext is on the > server side. The server sets a locale for the session and then localizes > your page accordingly via calls to gettext before you even get the page. > > Basically on your first visit yt tries to guess your locale based on > several parameters. Mainly the Accept-Language http header (the thing in > Settings->Content which you already found). It stores whatever your > current setting is in your cookies and whenever you visit yt or have a > video embedded in some site this cookie determines the language for yt > content.
Ok, thank you for explanation. If the localization is done on the server side, then cleaning the cookies should help and it indeed helped: the menu returned to its English view as soon as I deleted all my cookies from youtube. >> Moreover, if the menu "is from the site and not from firefox", why I >> get it in English from the other instance of the Firefox run in the >> same environment? > > It probably uses the same cookies. Probably you meant "the different cookies." > [1] http://youtube.com Too late get your explanation about checking the "yt language." Now, after deleting all youtube cookies, it is set to English as desired.