On 2023-02-27 13:58, Andreas Rönnquist wrote:
On Mon, 27 Feb 2023 11:29:51 +0100, Drew Parsons<dparsons@debian.org> wrote:The Debian website has an extensive set of translations of the pages. But when one language is selected, that choice is not followed through when clicking on links.What language the website is shown in is dependant on what language your browser is setup to show. (It's a browser setting). As you have noticed, the links at the bottom of each page does only change to the translated version of the current page, if you then click another link it will go back to the browser set language again. To make the complete Debian website show in another language, change the language setting in your browser. How this is done is described in detail on https://www.debian.org/intro/cn If you for some reason don't want to change the browser language setting, there is a way to set a cookie in the browser that also willchange the shown language. This too is described in the page I just linked.
That approach seems suboptimal, and not consistent with the behaviour usually experienced on other websites.
For instance, the Wikipedia article on Debian is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debian . If I select language to Italian, it sends me to https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debian . If I select links from there, e.g. "software libero" ("free and open-source software"), it remains in italiano, e.g. forwarding to https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_libero . No fiddling about with system language or cookies required.
Another example, the KTH university site. https://www.kth.se/ goes to the Swedish home page. If I click on "International website", it goes to https://www.kth.se/en in English. Then if I click on "About KTH", for instance, it forwards to https://www.kth.se/en/om, still in English. It doesn't revert back to the original Swedish page, https://www.kth.se/om.
Sometimes you just want to inspect the information in the other language, e.g. to show to a friend who speaks that language. It doesn't always mean you want the default langauge on your system to be set to that language.