Question regarding language selection.
Suppose for example that a list's preferred language is English, but a particular member's preferred language is Spanish. If the user goes to http://www.example.com/mailman/options/LIST, the options login page is displayed in English, and if the user either logs in or requests unsubscription from that page, she will get an options page or an unsubscription confirmation in English. She can first select Spanish as the language for the login page and redisplay it in Spanish and then it works as expected. The intent of this is to allow someone who may have accidently (or by email) subscribed in the list's preferred language to select a different language for unsubscribing or for the options page. This may be the desirable behavior, but an alternative is to use the user's current preferred language for this. Which is better depends on whether the user's current preferred language is intentional or accidental which is difficult to know, but if the user's language choice is accidental, it is likely to be the same as the list's language anyway, so it seems that setting the language for the options page or unsubscribe confirmation to the user's preferred language in the case where the language of the options login page is the list's language might be a good compromise. What do people think about this? -- Mark Sapiro <mark@msapiro.net> The highway is for gamblers, San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan
On Aug 20, 2009, at 8:50 PM, Mark Sapiro wrote:
This may be the desirable behavior, but an alternative is to use the user's current preferred language for this. Which is better depends on whether the user's current preferred language is intentional or accidental which is difficult to know, but if the user's language choice is accidental, it is likely to be the same as the list's language anyway, so it seems that setting the language for the options page or unsubscribe confirmation to the user's preferred language in the case where the language of the options login page is the list's language might be a good compromise.
What about comparing it against the browser's advertised preferred languages and falling back to that (or maybe preferring that when no language was selected)? -Barry
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Barry Warsaw
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Mark Sapiro