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Defect #4311

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Settings default language not (really) used

Added by Thomas Lecavelier about 15 years ago. Updated about 15 years ago.

Status:
Closed
Priority:
Normal
Assignee:
-
Category:
UI
Target version:
-
Start date:
2009-11-30
Due date:
% Done:

0%

Estimated time:
0.05 h
Resolution:
Duplicate
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Description

Redmine instances have a default locale setting (admin > settings > display) but this setting is only used when these two conditions are met:

  1. User is not logged in
  2. User's browser doesn't publish an HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE value

So, the current locale scheme is the following:

  1. User specified locale
  2. User browser default locale
  3. Redmine default locale

AMHO, redmine should switch the last two for:

  1. User specified locale
  2. Redmine default locale
  3. User browser default locale

Why? Because a not-logged in user should see what the redmine owner want him to see first, then let the user choose what locale he wants to see (once registerd and logged in). This way, it's easier to see what's the main language on that redmine instance and avoid a wide part of the risk to have question and bugs fills with user mother-tongue messages.

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0001-Redmine-default-locale-used-before-browser-locale.patch (1.11 KB) 0001-Redmine-default-locale-used-before-browser-locale.patch Candidate patch Thomas Lecavelier, 2009-11-30 13:14
0001-Redmine-default-locale-used-before-browser-locale-en.patch (2.23 KB) 0001-Redmine-default-locale-used-before-browser-locale-en.patch Take 2: enable "auto" to use browser HTTP_ACCEPTED_LANGUAGE Thomas Lecavelier, 2009-12-01 08:52

Related issues

Is duplicate of Redmine - Feature #2691: Option to disable automated language-guessing based on HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE HTTP-headerClosedJean-Philippe Lang2009-02-07

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 #2

Updated by Henrik Ammer about 15 years ago

Thomas Lecavelier wrote:

Here the minor change needed to integrate that need written counter r3110.

But if Redmine sets the language shown to the default language of Redmine it should not be needed to check for accepted languages from the user since it will never happen since Redmine always has a default language.
Therefor row 99-104 is obsolete.

Maybe a setting is better then removing the functionality?

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 #3

Updated by Thomas Lecavelier about 15 years ago

Henrik Jönsson wrote:

Maybe a setting is better then removing the functionality?

That's the setting ;)

I enabled the auto in this patch, and change the language.nil? for a language.blank? that do the work: if you leave it to "auto", the HTTP_ACEPT_LANGUAGE is required.

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 #4

Updated by Jean-Philippe Lang about 15 years ago

The default language setting is also used in a few places. We just can't leave it blank.
Instead, a setting to enable/disable browser language recognition should be added.

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 #5

Updated by Jean-Philippe Lang about 15 years ago

  • Status changed from New to Closed
  • Resolution set to Duplicate

Actually, it was already discussed in #2691.

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