Received: from localhost (unknown [200.46.204.184]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 93B882E01F4 for ; Mon, 10 Mar 2008 06:13:25 -0300 (ADT) Received: from postgresql.org ([200.46.204.71]) by localhost (mx1.hub.org [200.46.204.184]) (amavisd-maia, port 10024) with ESMTP id 15807-07 for ; Mon, 10 Mar 2008 06:13:13 -0300 (ADT) X-Greylist: from auto-whitelisted by SQLgrey-1.7.5 Received: from cronos.madness.at (madness.at [217.196.146.217]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 037D82E0127 for ; Mon, 10 Mar 2008 06:13:17 -0300 (ADT) Received: from congw.dc1.conova.com ([217.196.145.250] helo=[192.168.1.61]) by cronos.madness.at with esmtpsa (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1JYe4E-0002qf-Ij; Mon, 10 Mar 2008 10:13:13 +0100 Message-ID: <47D4FBB8.5000700@kaltenbrunner.cc> Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2008 10:13:28 +0100 From: Stefan Kaltenbrunner User-Agent: Icedove 1.5.0.14pre (X11/20080208) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Magnus Hagander CC: Adrian Maier , PostgreSQL www Subject: Re: PostgreSQL website translations References: <47D3965B.9060907@lelarge.info> <20080310090531.GC30980@svr2.hagander.net> In-Reply-To: <20080310090531.GC30980@svr2.hagander.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: Maia Mailguard 1.0.1 X-Archive-Number: 200803/164 X-Sequence-Number: 14283 Magnus Hagander wrote: > On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 10:39:19AM +0200, Adrian Maier wrote: [..] > > >> 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. > > 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