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by turnipla 2217 days ago
Yes and no.

I’m in Switzerland, please follow my browser language. Don’t guess whether I speak Swiss, French, Italian, etc

I’m in Laos, my OS is in English. Please show me Laotian.

However, do make it easy for anyone to change the language. I shouldn’t have to hunt the settings page when traveling.
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DXA9zE 2217 days ago
Why would you want to see Laotian?

Agree with the op. Not only do I regularly struggle with location-based internationalization, sometimes I can't even /see/ pages depending on location. Tried to find the product page for new google ear buds thing (in Korea) and they refuse to even display it. Of course, setting up local ssh tunnel to ec2 machine based in US takes < 60sec but it's still annoying.

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turnipla 2217 days ago
> Why would you want to see Laotian?

Statistically speaking, Laotian users speak Laotian. As a traveler, I’m the minority.

Regarding the rest, I feel you. They can guess whatever language as long as they make it easy to change it, without unnecessary redirection games.

Apple.com is relatively good with this:

> Hey I see you’re in Thailand, maybe you want to check out the Thai site.

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DXA9zE 2217 days ago
I thought you were suggesting that you would prefer to see Laotian despite OS/browser language settings, nvm
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mrweasel 2217 days ago
Exactly, there isn't really a right answer.

In my case: I want Danish, if and only IF the site is a Danish website. If you're not a Danish website, I would like English, even though a Danish version may be available.

Of cause that bad advise for many sites, because basically my request is that sites like Linkedin or Facebook just drops localization, but that's not what my mom wants.

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