https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3665

--- Comment #23 from Roan Kattouw <[email protected]> 2011-05-21 17:14:46 
UTC ---
(In reply to comment #22)
> The switcher exists and its uselang is permanent at Commons, it is nice.
> 
> Nonetheless I do not understand why couldn't Commons detect the browser 
> default
> language and set the interface according to that for non-registered users as
> well, if the switcher hasn't been used. What's the problem?
> 
> * Many users don't have set in their preferences in the browser – as far as I
> know, the default value is English there, so they will receive the Commons
> interface in English, the same way as now.
> 
> * For users having it set, the interface would be in the preferred language.
> 
> For nobody it would be worse, just better for one part of the users. Why not?
This could be done for logged-in users, I guess, but it definitely can't be
done for anonymous users due to Squid caching. The browser language headers
can't be detected client-side, only server-side.

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