Re: automatic language selection
On Fri, Jan 18, 2002 at 09:19:56PM -0500, James A. Treacy wrote:
> > Your web pages' language being automaticaly selected is quite annoying since
> > it happens even after selecting a link from the english version. Just
> > because I live in Portugal doesn't mean I want to read a Brazzilian
> > Portuguese translation of your web pages. If I choose the english version
> > and then click a link within it the page is in brazzilian portuguese again,
> > this shouldn't happen . And I point out that Portuguese(Portugal) and
> > Portuguese(Brazil) are NOT the same thing, so if in my browser I selected
> > Portuguese(pt) as preferred language and that version isn't available the
> > page should be displayed in english. I think the best way would be to let it
> > be configured on the page like it's usually done and not based on browser
> > configuration.
>
> Please configure your preferred languages to what you want. You asked
> for Portuguese (pt) and that is what you got. If you only want to be
> served Portuguese from Portugal, then use pt_PT.
Note also that the instructions on how to do this in a browser are at
http://www.debian.org/intro/cn#howtoset
(Hint: use "pt_PT, en, pt" as the setting)
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