On 22/06/11 18:39, Dave Sherohman wrote: > On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 10:55:43PM +1000, Scott Ferguson wrote: >> On 20/06/11 18:35, Dave Sherohman wrote: >>> Oh, if only it were that simple... Most internationalized >>> websites (including Google) seem to have completely given up on >>> Accept-Language headers[1] in favor of relying on IP geolocation. >>> I'm an American expat living in Sweden, so my browsers are set to >>> send >>> >>> Accept-Language: en-us, en, sv-se >>> >>> Despite this, every time my Google cookie expires, it sends me >>> the Swedish version of the page. Setting language preferences on >>> the client side does *not* work[2] for Google or most other >>> sites. >>> >>> >>> [1] apparently on the theory that "most users don't know how to >>> set their preferred lanuages, so the header specifies the >>> browser's default instead of the user's preference" >>> >>> [2] even though it damn well should >>> >> >> Are you sure this is not also Google's geolocation feature? > > My point is that geolocation should not matter.
No argument there. All you have to do now is convince the search engines. > Yes, I am physically in Sweden, however my Accept-Language header > explicitly states that Swedish is NOT my preferred language. > Documents should be provided in en-us if available, then en, and only > sv-se if no English version is available, regardless of my location. > > How they determine my physical location (IP geolocation vs. > approximating based on google's database of wireless access point > locations vs. GPS vs. triangulating from cell towers vs. picking me > out of a spy satellite image vs. whatever else) is completely > irrelevant to this point. > Thanks for sharing for your problem solving technique. Cheers -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4e01b84c.4080...@gmail.com
