[opensuse] software.opensuse.org displaying in German?
Grrr... this is annoying... software.opensuse.org is displaying in German on me. I'm connecting from a German IP, but have my browser language preferences set to English. Anyone else see the "wrong" language? (ie a language other than the browser preference) Not only do I get the page all in German now (a language I cannot read), there is no apparent way to set things back to English. I've emailed the webmaster at opensuse.org about this... I dearly hope that someone hasn't done something really really stupid like.. dare I say it.. set up geolocation to "guess" the language of the user browsing to the site. Geolocation cannot get the language right... language settings should always base it on the browser string, not the geolocated IP :-( C. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On 25.10.2009, Clayton wrote:
Grrr... this is annoying... software.opensuse.org is displaying in German on me. I'm connecting from a German IP, but have my browser language preferences set to English. Anyone else see the "wrong" language?
No, it doesn't affect me, I'm able to read both English and German. But I must admit that this is somewhat ugly.
I've emailed the webmaster at opensuse.org about this... I dearly hope that someone hasn't done something really really stupid like.. dare I say it.. set up geolocation to "guess" the language of the user browsing to the site. Geolocation cannot get the language right... language settings should always base it on the browser string, not the geolocated IP :-(
When I connect to software.opensuse.org, the language displayed is German, but I'm located in Norway (both physically and my host IP) and use "US_en" as my browser language :-) Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686 (x86_64); en-US; rv:1.9.0.14) Gecko/2009090900 Firefox/3.0.14 And yes, you're right, there's no way to change the language manually to something else than German. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Heinz Diehl wrote:
On 25.10.2009, Clayton wrote:
Grrr... this is annoying... software.opensuse.org is displaying in German on me. I'm connecting from a German IP, but have my browser language preferences set to English. Anyone else see the "wrong" language?
No, it doesn't affect me, I'm able to read both English and German. But I must admit that this is somewhat ugly.
I've emailed the webmaster at opensuse.org about this... I dearly hope that someone hasn't done something really really stupid like.. dare I say it.. set up geolocation to "guess" the language of the user browsing to the site. Geolocation cannot get the language right... language settings should always base it on the browser string, not the geolocated IP :-(
When I connect to software.opensuse.org, the language displayed is German, but I'm located in Norway (both physically and my host IP) and use "US_en" as my browser language :-)
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686 (x86_64); en-US; rv:1.9.0.14) Gecko/2009090900 Firefox/3.0.14
And yes, you're right, there's no way to change the language manually to something else than German.
Well i am also facing the same problem.And i suppose theres nothing much to worry about.It must be a small technical problem(must be some scripts interchanged),And will be fixed. :)So its not about a single person ..:) Best, Shayon -- openSUSE Wiki Team Member http://en.opensuse.org/User:Wwarlock Website: http://www.shay0n.hpage.com Email: hkwarlock@gmail.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Well i am also facing the same problem.And i suppose theres nothing much to worry about.It must be a small technical problem(must be some scripts interchanged),And will be fixed. :)So its not about a single person ..:)
Phew :-) I was thinking it was me again. I have this knack for messing things up. Since others are seeing the same/similar, then it's likely to be fixed soon (I hope). I haven't had a chance to log into my US or UK proxies to check against the connecting IP - the proxies are so useful in getting around geolocation nonsense, and other region restrictions :-) C. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Clayton wrote:
Well i am also facing the same problem.And i suppose theres nothing much to worry about.It must be a small technical problem(must be some scripts interchanged),And will be fixed. :)So its not about a single person ..:)
Phew :-) I was thinking it was me again. I have this knack for messing things up.
Since others are seeing the same/similar, then it's likely to be fixed soon (I hope). I haven't had a chance to log into my US or UK proxies to check against the connecting IP - the proxies are so useful in getting around geolocation nonsense, and other region restrictions :-)
C.
Yea!! lets see what happens .As i am not quite sure that above mentioned reason is correct or not.But more or less it would be similar to it.And IMO openSUSE is in safe hands,so no worries of HACKS and all(mentioned in the previous mail).Till then just chill :) Best, Shayon -- openSUSE Wiki Team Member http://en.opensuse.org/User:Wwarlock Website: http://www.shay0n.hpage.com Email: hkwarlock@gmail.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Clayton wrote:
Grrr... this is annoying... software.opensuse.org is displaying in German on me. I'm connecting from a German IP, but have my browser language preferences set to English. Anyone else see the "wrong" language? (ie a language other than the browser preference) Not only do I get the page all in German now (a language I cannot read), there is no apparent way to set things back to English.
I've emailed the webmaster at opensuse.org about this... I dearly hope that someone hasn't done something really really stupid like.. dare I say it.. set up geolocation to "guess" the language of the user browsing to the site. Geolocation cannot get the language right... language settings should always base it on the browser string, not the geolocated IP :-(
C.
In the US, it comes up in English, but it switches to the url http://www.opensuse.org/en/ in German, it comes up http://www.opensuse.org/de/ so you can try changing the suffix to be language-specific And also there is a little language selector way down in the lower right corner of the page. -- Tony Alfrey tonyalfrey@earthlink.net "I'd Rather Be Sailing" -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Tony Alfrey wrote:
Clayton wrote:
Grrr... this is annoying... software.opensuse.org is displaying in German on me. I'm connecting from a German IP, but have my browser language preferences set to English. Anyone else see the "wrong" language? (ie a language other than the browser preference) Not only do I get the page all in German now (a language I cannot read), there is no apparent way to set things back to English.
I've emailed the webmaster at opensuse.org about this... I dearly hope that someone hasn't done something really really stupid like.. dare I say it.. set up geolocation to "guess" the language of the user browsing to the site. Geolocation cannot get the language right... language settings should always base it on the browser string, not the geolocated IP :-(
C.
In the US, it comes up in English, but it switches to the url
in German, it comes up http://www.opensuse.org/de/
so you can try changing the suffix to be language-specific
And also there is a little language selector way down in the lower right corner of the page.
Opps, sorry, *software*.opensuse.org. My bad. On my box, it's a strange mix of English and German -- Tony Alfrey tonyalfrey@earthlink.net "I'd Rather Be Sailing" -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
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Tony Alfrey wrote:
Clayton wrote:
Grrr... this is annoying... software.opensuse.org is displaying in German on me. I'm connecting from a German IP, but have my browser language preferences set to English. Anyone else see the "wrong" language? (ie a language other than the browser preference) Not only do I get the page all in German now (a language I cannot read), there is no apparent way to set things back to English.
I've emailed the webmaster at opensuse.org about this... I dearly hope that someone hasn't done something really really stupid like.. dare I say it.. set up geolocation to "guess" the language of the user browsing to the site. Geolocation cannot get the language right... language settings should always base it on the browser string, not the geolocated IP :-(
C.
In the US, it comes up in English, but it switches to the url
in German, it comes up http://www.opensuse.org/de/
so you can try changing the suffix to be language-specific
And also there is a little language selector way down in the lower right corner of the page.
Opps, sorry, *software*.opensuse.org. My bad. On my box, it's a strange mix of English and German
On mine it comes up with a mix of English and Spanish. Looks like someone fubared/hacked the website. -- Ken Schneider SuSe since Version 5.2, June 1998 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Clayton wrote:
Grrr... this is annoying... software.opensuse.org is displaying in German on me. I'm connecting from a German IP, but have my browser language preferences set to English. Anyone else see the "wrong" language? (ie a language other than the browser preference)
I'm seeing a mixture of English and German. I have my language prefererence set to de,en. /Per -- Per Jessen, Zürich (12.7°C) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Sunday 25 Oct 2009 11:41:52 Clayton wrote:
Grrr... this is annoying... software.opensuse.org is displaying in German on me. I'm connecting from a German IP, but have my browser language preferences set to English. Anyone else see the "wrong" language? (ie a language other than the browser preference) Not only do I get the page all in German now (a language I cannot read), there is no apparent way to set things back to English.
I've emailed the webmaster at opensuse.org about this... I dearly hope that someone hasn't done something really really stupid like.. dare I say it.. set up geolocation to "guess" the language of the user browsing to the site. Geolocation cannot get the language right... language settings should always base it on the browser string, not the geolocated IP :-(
C.
Yep German on the side bars and English for the central content area Located in England using an London based IP but in Birmingham Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-GB; rv:1.9.1b4) Gecko/20090426 SUSE/3.5b4-2.1 Firefox/3.5b4 Pete . -- Powered by openSUSE 11.2 Milestone 2 (x86_64) Kernel: 2.6.30-rc6-git3-4- default KDE: 4.2.86 (KDE 4.2.86 (KDE 4.3 >= 20090514)) "release 1" 12:52 up 6 days 17:59, 2 users, load average: 0.07, 0.04, 0.01
On 25.10.2009 12:41, Clayton wrote:
Grrr... this is annoying... software.opensuse.org is displaying in German on me. I'm connecting from a German IP, but have my browser language preferences set to English. Anyone else see the "wrong" language? (ie a language other than the browser preference) Not only do I get the page all in German now (a language I cannot read), there is no apparent way to set things back to English.
I've emailed the webmaster at opensuse.org about this... I dearly hope that someone hasn't done something really really stupid like.. dare I say it.. set up geolocation to "guess" the language of the user browsing to the site. Geolocation cannot get the language right... language settings should always base it on the browser string, not the geolocated IP :-(
We are currently working on i18n'ing the site for the upcoming release. Probably something got messed up while testing the new features, sorry for the confusion, we will fix this. But afaic the language is chosen by the accept header, and not by ip location. Greetings -- Thomas Schmidt (tschmidt [at] suse.de) SUSE Linux Products GmbH :: Research & Development :: Tools "A strange game. The only winning move is not to play.", Wargames -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
We are currently working on i18n'ing the site for the upcoming release. Probably something got messed up while testing the new features, sorry for the confusion, we will fix this. But afaic the language is chosen by the accept header, and not by ip location.
Sounds like a good idea :-) But please be sure to set language by browser string and not geolocation. Geolocation guesses incorrectly for travelers, expats etc, and can often get things wrong anyway - eg my employer is in Germany, but depending on the day/connection at the office, I can show up as being in Germany, Switzerland or the UK. Geolocation is the bane of my online life :-P C. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Sun, 2009-10-25 at 12:41 +0100, Clayton wrote:
Grrr... this is annoying... software.opensuse.org is displaying in German on me. I'm connecting from a German IP, but have my browser language preferences set to English. Anyone else see the "wrong" language? (ie a language other than the browser preference) Not only do I get the page all in German now (a language I cannot read), there is no apparent way to set things back to English.
It's still doing that tonight, I was just on there. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Sunday 25 October 2009 12:41:52 Clayton wrote:
Grrr... this is annoying... software.opensuse.org is displaying in German on me. I'm connecting from a German IP, but have my browser language preferences set to English. Anyone else see the "wrong" language? (ie a language other than the browser preference) Not only do I get the page all in German now (a language I cannot read), there is no apparent way to set things back to English.
I've emailed the webmaster at opensuse.org about this... I dearly hope that someone hasn't done something really really stupid like.. dare I say it.. set up geolocation to "guess" the language of the user browsing to the site. Geolocation cannot get the language right... language settings should always base it on the browser string, not the geolocated IP :-(
Please report this in bugzilla using as product "openSUSE.org", Andreas -- Andreas Jaeger, Program Manager openSUSE, aj@{novell.com,opensuse.org} Twitter: jaegerandi | Identica: jaegerandi SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg) Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany GPG fingerprint = 93A3 365E CE47 B889 DF7F FED1 389A 563C C272 A126
Grrr... this is annoying... software.opensuse.org is displaying in German on me. I'm connecting from a German IP, but have my browser
Please report this in bugzilla using as product "openSUSE.org",
No need... it's fixed already. :-) C. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
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Tony Alfrey