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How to set Firefox default language to test internationalization? plenty900 05-31-2008
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Posted by plenty900 on May 31, 2008, 11:45 am
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 Hi folks,

I've altered the PHP underlying a website to support
a few languages other than English, but the Firefox version that
I'm using is of course the English-language one.
When I set the language in the preferences e.g. to French,
the website still thinks the browser is English. Is there a way
to properly change the browser language?

Thanks.

Posted by Jukka K. Korpela on May 31, 2008, 12:38 pm
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 Scripsit plenty900@yahoo.com:

> I've altered the PHP underlying a website to support
> a few languages other than English,

Meaning what?

> but the Firefox version that
> I'm using is of course the English-language one.

Is that relevant? How?

> When I set the language in the preferences e.g. to French,

In the browser? Surely?

> the website still thinks the browser is English.

No it doesn't.

> Is there a way
> to properly change the browser language?

That wouldn't be an _authoring_ problem, would it?

Please explain in concrete terms what you have done. Start from giving
us the URL. You probably need to reveal some PHP code too.

Followups trimmed to alt.html, since this does not seem to be about HTML
authoring in the strict sense applicable in c.i.w.a.h.

--
Jukka K. Korpela ("Yucca")
http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/


Posted by dorayme on May 31, 2008, 8:18 pm
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In article
plenty900@yahoo.com wrote:

> the website still thinks the browser is English

Mori and his wife were dining in a Kosher restaurant in New York when
the manager spots them.

Hey, Mori! Good to see you.

Oy, Saul, I didn't know you went into the restaurant business? You were
in used cars back then, huh! Listen here, I am so impressed by how well
and politely your Chinese waiter speaks Yiddish!"

Ssshhi! I taught him - he is applying for American citizenship - he
thinks it is English.

--
dorayme

Posted by Roderik on May 31, 2008, 10:17 pm
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plenty900@yahoo.com schreef:
> Hi folks,
>
> I've altered the PHP underlying a website to support
> a few languages other than English, but the Firefox version that
> I'm using is of course the English-language one.
> When I set the language in the preferences e.g. to French,
> the website still thinks the browser is English. Is there a way
> to properly change the browser language?
>
> Thanks.

Type in the address bar:
about:config

You will get a list of settings. Search for "en-" and you see some
language settings.

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