On 29/04/2009, Thomas Ziegler <zieg...@physik.hu-berlin.de> wrote: > Hi there in Debian-land, > > I am traveling a lot and working in different countries. And every time I > open the debian pages from a computer in a different country I get it > opened in the local language. It might be convenient for many users, that > the server can automaticlly select the language. And it also seems > convenient for you to let the user change the browser's default language > settings. But especially the last point is neither possbile for all users > nor desirable for the browser usage, as in my case. People might want to > read different pages in different personally preferred languages without > changing the default language setting of their browser every time. I > normally have more than 30 pages in different languages open at the same > time. And I might even want to have a look at one page in different > languages. This is all just part of living in a global world, though many > people might not yet even think of that. But it will become more and more > normal in the not so far future. So be prepared and give users a different > way to read the debian pages in different languages. In a more distant > future in which computers will be more intelligent than humans and just > "know" what users want, you could still fall back to your current > solution. ;-) > > Thanks, for your help in advance. > Thomas >
I couldn't agree more - language/alphabet selection should be possible per-page. It is accepted that it's convenient for the IP to determine the initial language being served, but please let me have a clickable selection of language, even in other alphabets (I use English, Spanish, Bulgarian and Arabic, amongst others) Thanks for all the good work - - I try to help too. ;) John > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-www-requ...@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > listmas...@lists.debian.org > > -- My house for sale in Peru. http://www.580elbosque.idimo.net --------------------------------- Become a serious teacher by clicking this link and registering here - I did and now I am earning - http://www.seriousteachers.com/teachers.asp?IdTeacherPartner=1085695 ################################# Ayer es historia. Mañana un misterio. Hoy es un regalo. Es por ello que es llamado el presente!! Creo que esta vida es especial Vivela..........!!!!!!!! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-www-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
