86339 - language prefs not behaving properly

Status: VERIFIED INVALID

(Core :: Internationalization, defect)

Description

[brian]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:0.9.1) Gecko/20010607
BuildID:    2001060703



Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.edit -> preferences -> navigator | languages
2.add chinese [Zh] and make it second choice
3.restart moz (if necessary)
4.goto www.debian.org

Actual Results:  page is displayed in chinese

Expected Results:  page should still be displayed in english

ordering of language preferences have no effect. page will still be displayed in
chinese.

Comment 1

[sairuh (rarely reading bugmail)]

->i18n?

Comment 2

[nhottanscp]

ylong, could you try this?

Comment 3

[Yuying Long]

I'm confirming this bug:
I can reproduce it on 06-18 trunk build on Win2k and Linux, change platform to 
All.
Not reproduce on N4.7, it always display English at first time, unless you 
change the order of language in Preferences.
On IE: depends on their language of OS, it will display different language of 
OS by default when first load this page.  And if you add some other language in 
Option | language, then this page will display the first language in Option | 
language setting.

Comment 4

[nhottanscp]

Can this be cookie related, please try deleting cookies.

Comment 5

[Yuying Long]

I still got same result even I removed all cookies.

Comment 6

[nhottanscp]

I cannot reproduce this using NS6.1 PR1 win32.
I do not see the Chinese page unless I put 'zn' at the top of the language list. 
If 'zn' is after 'en', the English page is loaded.

Comment 7

[Yuying Long]

It's very strenge, in my case, it doesn't matter with the language order in 
Preferences on N6.1.  I'll show you how I did.

Comment 8

[Frank Tang]

nhotta-
this is 'zh' not 'zn'
This is an invalid bug. What happen is the www.debian.org listen to the
Accept-Language header we send out and return a Chinese page to us. IT is a
server sites features usually most web site do not take advantage of. This is
not a bug.

This site demostrate exactly the usage of the language preference.  

Comment 9

[Yuying Long]

Mark it as verified per comments from Frank.