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F-Droid 2.0

1465 points · 420 comments · daveoc64

  1. cyberax · · focus · HN ↗
    Dear F-Droud, please stop redirecting me to the Mandarin version automatically without an option to read the original message. Just because I have a Chinese keyboard layout available.
    1. zaik · · focus · HN ↗
      What Accept-Language header are you sending?
      1. cyberax · · focus · HN ↗
        Not sure, it happened on mobile Firefox. My point is that there should be a way to disable it and switch to a different language manually.
        1. Aachen · · focus · HN ↗
          <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;wutools.com&#x2F;dev&#x2F;testing-debugging&#x2F;http-header-viewer" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;wutools.com&#x2F;dev&#x2F;testing-debugging&#x2F;http-header-viewer

          First hit for &#x27;check http headers&#x27;, in case that helps find out why websites think you want Chinese content. Maybe it&#x27;s a bug in the website; maybe it&#x27;s set as your first preference. Please report the bug if there is one!

          1. cyberax · · focus · HN ↗
            And I&#x27;m actually stumped. Firefox is just sending `en-US` on mobile.

            I have no idea why it selected Mandarin. I can switch back to English by using the &quot;desktop site&quot; feature that _does_ have a language dropdown.

            1. Aachen · · focus · HN ↗
              That&#x27;s strange, sounds worth reporting. They should be able to tell you if there&#x27;s anything else to check (maybe some javascript interface says Chinese is the way to go) or if it&#x27;s really just some strange bug on their end (misdetection of the ip address or so)
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