Re: PostgreSQL website translations

Magnus Hagander wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 10:39:19AM +0200, Adrian Maier wrote:

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>> Another thing that will need serious thinking is, IMHO, the
>> mechanism used for selecting the language. I personally
>> hate when a website decides the language based on
>> something unintuitive and transparent like the default
>> language in the browser or the IP location. I mean: it's
>> much better to have a set of small flags or a combobox
>> so that the user can easily select the desired language
>> instead of digging into web browser 's configuration.
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> I think it's reasonable to have it *default* to the language from your
> browser. Doint it based on IP like google does just completely *sucks*, but
> the browser langauge makes sense. However, on top of that there should be a
> way to switch your language on the site as well, to override what you have
> as the default in the browser.

yes that is what I would like to see as well - default to browser
language and have a manual override on the site.

Stefan