Don't set the language of your website based on user location

Re:Don't set the language of your website based on user loca... by JimDabell on Monday May 18, 2020 @01:11AM (#23218595)

It (long) predates "falsehoods" style articles, but this article is pretty commonly cited: http://jkorpela.fi/flags.html

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Re:Don't set the language of your website based on user loca... by Dylan16807 on Monday May 18, 2020 @08:48AM (#23221645)

That article is more about aesthetics than anything.

Also:

> There is a perfect symbol for any language which you can use on the Web: the name of the language in the language itself, such as English (or British English or US English, if needed). Be careful with the grammatically correct use of upper and lower case here! If a reader doesn't know the name of language X in X, he probably does not know X enough for the link to be of use to him.

So now that I'm on this Korean site, with no idea how "Korean" looks in Korean, how am I supposed to find the language picker?

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Re:Don't set the language of your website based on user loca... by ronsor on Monday May 18, 2020 @11:51AM (#23223982)

I believe you misunderstood the author.

He is not saying to use the current language's hame for the language picker's icon (I would use a globe, personally), but instead to use the language's name in the list.

For example:

    [GLOBE]
    >English
    >日本語

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