1182458 - When sharing an article using the short link in Facebook, the title remains in English in the preview even if it is translated

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(support.mozilla.org :: Localization, task)

Description

[Underpass]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:40.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/40.0
Build ID: 20150706172413

Steps to reproduce:

Share an article (e.g. https://support.mozilla.org/it/kb/Installare%20il%20plugin%20Flash)

in Facebook using the short link

http://mzl.la/1BAQTa4


Actual results:

The article is translated in Italian but in the post preview it appears as

"Install the Flash plugin to view videos, animations and games"


Expected results:

The article should appear with its translated title. An English title could be over overlooked by people who don't understand English.

Comment 1

[Michael Cooper [:mythmon]]

The share links are locale-neutral, so that it opens in the preferred language of whoever clicks the link. When no preferred language is given (through HTTP headers configured by browsers), the default is English.

We can't support both use cases. Either links can be friendly to the person who clicks on it, or we can control what language previewers see it in. I think Facebook is at fault here, and should be sending an Accept-Language header that matches the current user's preferred language.

If you want to make a link that forces a locale, you can do that. Simply copy the full link from your address bar, including the locale code at the beginning of the URL. Facebook will show the "correct" preview from that.