https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=33175

--- Comment #20 from Liangent <[email protected]> ---
(In reply to comment #19)
> (In reply to comment #18)
> > So there is a case where the #mw-content-text isn't set to the wiki content
> > language but to the user language, if the content language has a variation?
> > That sounds like a MediaWiki core bug perhaps. Though we could export
> > Title::getPageLanguage() in VisualEditor specifically, looks like this 
> > should
> > be fixed in core instead, given that it sounds like the regular view of an
> > article when reading articles would be broken now as well. And I think the
> > VisualEditor edit surface should match what the regular page view does.
> 
> On wikis with variation, there're three language codes. One for user language
> (to fetch interface messages), another for content language (wikitext written
> in) and the third for page view language (after wikitext gets rendered, it's
> converted to another language / variant then displayed to user, by
> LanguageConverter). The third can be the same as or different from the first;
> they're used for different things. However in practice they're usually set to
> the same one by users but we shouldn't assume this. #mw-content-text has the
> third language code mentioned above, and if VisualEditor and Parsoid are not
> aware of variation / conversion, they're processing content in the first
> language (code).

^ I guess this should be explained on some MW.org page. I have been asked about
this stuff several times.

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