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by nemetroid 4471 days ago
I'm running an English version of Windows 7 in Sweden. The accept-language headers in each of my installed browsers are:

* IE9: sv-SE

* Firefox: en,sv;q=0.5

* Chrome: en-US,en;q=0.8,sv;q=0.6

I'm going to go ahead and suggest that the reason English comes before Swedish is due to my system language, and that Swedish otherwise would come first. The "users will have the wrong settings" argument seems moot to me.

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I know people who have their OS in English even though they're not fluent in English - they can't be bothered to reinstall OS that came with the laptop (or cracked torrent) and understanding a few words like "ok/cancel" is enough.