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by crabmusket 1 day ago
But lang in this case would be a property of the document itself, not the user agent, right?

I can't see a way in CSS to detect the user agent preferred language, but you could do this in JS and add another attribute to the document or whatever.
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Theodores 10 hours ago
Correct!

It has been a year since I last checked, and I did use JS and 'navigator'.

However, importantly for me, I was able to avoid a trip back to the server for the few bits I wanted - introduction - in different locales.

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Theodores 3 hours ago
Actually, I looked into it some more, and SVG Switch, which should do stuff based on browser locale.

However, it was showing me 'en-US' not 'en-GB'. There is a bug in SVG switch that means it can do languages automagically but not variants. This I can work with, but it is still something unexpected and unlikely to be fixed because nobody cares about SVG.

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