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Could we provide the user the right language more automatically? #82
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We could use the language the browser is in. See developer.mozilla.org
It would be quite easy to implement.
On the backend side the server could make use of
Accept-Languageheader. Though we probably should only redirect on first "encounter" and display a note at the top, like "We've redirected you to your browser preferred language." or similar. Then, if user switches back to English, we should not redirect anymore (probably a boolean cookie would be enough). Otherwise the redirections could be frustrating for users.It's worth noting that MDN is experimenting with “Remember language” feature. It should help with user preference for redirection behaviour.
Reacted by Manuel Kaufmann and W. H. WangThough we probably should only redirect on first "encounter" and display a note at the top, like "We've redirected you to your browser preferred language."
It could also be opt-in instead of opt-out, i.e. show a "Do you want to be redirected to the docs?" message when we detect a preferred language that is not English.
Reacted by Stan Ulbrych, Maciej Olko and Manuel Kaufmann
I mean, when a french browser hits
docs.python.org/it could be redirected todocs.python.org/fr/in a clean way.I'm sure some people prefer reading the english version anway, so we need to find a smart way of doing it, a way such that nobody can complain about it.