182610 - Preference to choose Accept-language header

Status: VERIFIED WONTFIX

(Camino Graveyard :: Preferences, enhancement)

Description

[Stephane Moureau]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20021128 Chimera/0.6+
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20021128 Chimera/0.6+

To be able to define which languages, and in which order, (French/Belgium
[fr-be], French [fr], etc) must be used to view a web page.
This has nothing to do with System Preferences - International - Langues which
is for the language used in dialogs and menus in the Application.
But using the same interface, not the values, (modify-checkmarks-drag) would be
a good idea.
See also Bug 161337

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:

Comment 1

[kaldari]

Confirming as this is an important feature for international users. Plus the W3C
recommends it:

"As intelligibility is highly dependent on the individual user, it is
recommended that client applications make the choice of linguistic preference
available to the user."

Comment 2

[Yonatan Feldman]

the intl.accept_language user_pref works to set the Accept-Language header sent
by the browser. all we need is a UI to alter this preference and apply the
changes without restarting the browser.

one additional feature that i have not seen in any browser but would be really
useful for people like me that do a lot of translating of web pages would be to
be able to override the default language selected on a per window or per tab
basis. if this is not too much work and does not cause a lot of overhead (i love
the fact that chimera is very fast) it would really be useful.

Comment 3

[S Woodside]

Why not just use the system preferences?

Comment 4

[Yonatan Feldman]

it would be nice to be able to see the page in it's different languages side by
side. right now if i am translating a page i have to open one version, say the
english version, in chimera and the other version, say spanish, in a different
browser, say netscape or ie. this is definately not a big deal but i think it
might be cool and at least to me very useful. i don't know of any browser that
allows you to override the language preference on a per window/tab basis.

Comment 5

[Stephane Moureau]

If you use System Pref you'll affect all the applications and it's only for the
interface. It's totally different.
You can use a program in English because there is no translation and want to
read the page in your language.

Comment 6

[kaldari]

Simon:
Using the system prefs is covered in the alternate feature request bug 161337.
This bug is about providing a separate pref. The merits of the 2 approaches have
already been discussed in bug 161337.

Comment 7

[S Woodside]

Ah, sorry. I recommend this bug be moved over to Mozilla. They are much more
likely to implement a feature like this. Frankly I don't see it applying to a
KISS browser like Chimera unless it proves very popular in moz.

Comment 8

[kaldari]

Simon:
Mozilla already provides this feature and always has. Being able to set the
accept-language header is a very basic and important feature for international
users. It is also recommended by the W3C that all HTML user-agents allow users
to set this header. I certainly do not think this feature would be considered
bloat, although the option to pull the setting from the system prefs (bug
161337) has been offered as a potential alternative solution that would minimize
overhead. In my opinion, however, providing a simple preference interface would
be the ideal solution.

Comment 9

[kaldari]

Simon:
BTW, I do think that Yonatan's suggestion would be excessive for Chimera (and
probably confusing for the average user). Perhaps that was what you were
suggesting be moved to a Mozilla bug. My apologies if I misunderstood your comment.

Comment 10

[Bruce Davidson]

I'm wontfixing this now that bug 161337 has landed on the trunk. Basically bug
161337 picks this information up from System Preferences, similar to the way
that Safari does. This should mean that user's won't have to worry about
configuring this stuff, it will just happen. (Although some installations of
MacOS X seem to select a large number of languages by default - you may want to
check your settings.)