Re:Google's link to French privacy fine crashes watchdog's site
by roywiggins on Monday February 10, 2014 @05:24PM
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In some cases it makes sense. Date, number and measurements vary a lot between English speaking countries. Now, you'd probably just geolocate but still- locale is more than language. An American Flag can give you an en-US locale, a UK flag, en-GB, etc since English is a pretty good guess for the language they want.
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Re:Google's link to French privacy fine crashes watchdog's site
by laumars on Monday February 10, 2014 @06:19PM
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That's fine if you do have different locales, and I also find it acceptable when software labels their language as "American English" or "English (American)" (the latter being preferable, former acceptable). But when your options are only European flags (Spanish, French, German, etc) and the American one (and maybe some Asian flags depending on how global the product is), but I'd personally say the language overrides the locale.