Re: debian web page: Multilingual stuff
Didn't know about having to set my browser... I think it's still better to
be able to manually select which language you want to read it in because
there are times when I want to read pages in English and other times when
it's better to read them in another language. At the moment, Debian
doesn't give you any choice...
tak
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On Wed, 24 Oct 2001, Jaime E . Villate wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 23, 2001 at 07:03:26PM -0400, James A. Treacy wrote:
> > On Tue, Oct 23, 2001 at 10:06:02PM +0100, Tak Kaneko wrote:
> > > Hi
> > >
> > > I've got Japanese IME installed on my PC and tried to view the Debian web
> > > page using Internet Explorer. I keep getting Japanese as the default. Even
> > > if I select the English option, the next page I download ends up being
> > > Japanese...
> > >
> > You need to be careful. When selecting english, does it show 'en-us (or
> > some other country variant)? If so, you need to make sure you select
> > 'en' without a country code. See http://www.debian.org/intro/cn.en.html
> > for an explanation.
>
> I think you have misunderstood Tak's comment. When he said "I select the
> English option", I think he was not referring to the multilanguage
> configuration of the browser. He was saying that when he clicks on a link that
> says "English" at the bottom of an html page, he gets an English page, but if
> he follows any link on that page he gets Japanese again and not English as he
> would expect it.
>
> And please do not tell me once again that "the multilanguage feature can be
> easily configured in every browser to make the Debian pages work as anyone
> expects them to work". Let's face it, a lot of people never configure the
> multilanguage feature of their browsers, and we will keep getting these kind
> of bug reports over and over again, no matter how much we try to educate the
> public about multiviews.
>
> Cheers,
> Jaime
>
>
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