{"id":167,"date":"2011-08-05T04:49:00","date_gmt":"2011-08-05T04:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pim.famnit.upr.si\/wp\/?p=167"},"modified":"2021-11-17T12:29:53","modified_gmt":"2021-11-17T12:29:53","slug":"per-site-language-preferences-in-browsers-please","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pim.famnit.upr.si\/wp\/?p=167","title":{"rendered":"Per-site language preferences in browsers please!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A lot of <strong>web sites are translated in many languages<\/strong>. And when we visit them, they usually look up at our web browser&#8217;s language preferences (locale). However, <strong>the content differs between languages<\/strong> and not everything is translated. For example, my <strong>home university&#8217;s web site<\/strong> has a lot of content in Slovenian but only essential information in Italian and English. So <strong>I would like my browser to show me the Slovenian version<\/strong> of it. But <strong>I want Google in English<\/strong>, because I don&#8217;t get it in Slovenian. If I set my language preferences to Slovenian, Google gets translated as well; if I set it to English, university&#8217;s site shows up in English and I have to navigate to the language I like. Google for example, has a preference form when one can select the<br \/>\npreferred language. But in my case it keeps changing back to my locale<br \/>\nafter some time and I have to do it over and over again.<\/p>\n<p>Some web sites look also at user&#8217;s IP address and show the content accordingly to&nbsp; IP&#8217;s geographical location. This gets even more annoying than browser&#8217;s locale. When traveling in Germany I still want my web pages in English as I might not speak German :). <\/p>\n<p>I know this is not a problem to native English speakers and that it is<br \/>\nnot hard to just select a right language here and there. But <strong>it produces a few undesired clicks<\/strong>. <\/p>\n<p>So <strong>why not having a per-site language settings besides a global one?<\/strong> I might be the only one just slightly annoyed by this issue! But on the other hand, I never officially complained to the browsers&#8217; people :). I have to do that.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/pim.famnit.upr.si\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/ff_locale.png\" class=\"no_float\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A lot of web sites are translated in many languages. And when we visit them, they usually look up at our web browser&#8217;s language preferences (locale). However, the content differs between languages and not everything is translated. For example, my home university&#8217;s web site has a lot of content in Slovenian but only essential information&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-6-pim-research","category-8-software-interfaces"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pim.famnit.upr.si\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pim.famnit.upr.si\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pim.famnit.upr.si\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pim.famnit.upr.si\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pim.famnit.upr.si\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=167"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/pim.famnit.upr.si\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1524,"href":"https:\/\/pim.famnit.upr.si\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167\/revisions\/1524"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pim.famnit.upr.si\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pim.famnit.upr.si\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pim.famnit.upr.si\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}