Feature changed by: Alex Minton (Minton) Feature #309721, revision 13 Title: Make forums.opensuse.org true international - Hackweek V: Unconfirmed + openSUSE Infrastructure: Done Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Yury Tsarev (xnull) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: Current situation at forums.o.o is that newcomer non-english users have to find workaround of manual language switch before they can read forum branches in their native language. It is incovnenient, old-fashioned and just ugly. There are two ways to solve this problem. 1) Dirty hack with apache rewrite rules wich resolves user's browser language and makes automatic redirect to current language. The example part of apache config for russian users is here : RewriteEngine on RewriteBase / RewriteCond %{HTTP:Accept-Language} (^ru) [NC] # RU redirects RewriteRule ^$ /?langid=4 [L,R] 2) Convert all backend data to UTF-8. This will be the beautiful and correct solution. Discussion: #1: Per Jessen (pjessen) (2010-06-09 08:02:25) 1) should be done anyway, in my opinion. Not much of a hack either, it's the normal way for multi-lingual sites to pick the default language. #2: Ilya Chernykh (ansus) (2010-07-22 12:45:38) I also would like to point out that the forum's notifications sent by e- mail to Russian users are encoded in something awkward way so there is no possibility te read them. Even the heuristic de-cipherer program Shtirlitz cannot determine the encoding. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/309721