1026746 - L20n.js on Chromium - always use the default language

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 886053

(L20n :: JS Library, defect)

Description

[noemie.lehuby]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux i686; rv:30.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/30.0 (Beta/Release)
Build ID: 20140608211208

Steps to reproduce:

I try to localize my website under several languages : fr (default), es and ast.




Actual results:

With Chromium, the website uses the fr chains only, no matter the browser config.

With Firefox, it's ok, if the browser language is set to es, the es chains are used.

Chromium Version 34.0.1847.116 Ubuntu 13.10 (260972)
Accept-Language:es,en-US;q=0.8,en;q=0.6


Expected results:

The es chains should be used when viewing my website with Chromium too.

Comment 1

[Staś Małolepszy :stas]

Hi there, thanks for the report.  Unfortunately, if I understand the issue correctly, this is a bug in Chrome/Chromium, not L20n.  In Chromium, navigator.language is always set to the language of the UI of the browser (which depends on the build that you install) instead of being the first value of the Accept-Languages pref.

In the future, we'll want to use navigator.languages anyways, but I'm also not sure what the status of the implementation in Chromium is.

See https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=101138 and bug 886053.

Comment 2

[Robert Kaiser]

(In reply to Staś Małolepszy :stas from comment #1)
> In Chromium,
> navigator.language is always set to the language of the UI of the browser
> (which depends on the build that you install) instead of being the first
> value of the Accept-Languages pref.

Note that this was the case for a really long time in Firefox as well, as that was the original intent of navigator.language - we switched away from that mostly because of how websites were using it, IIRC.