It is not very user friendly to a person who doesn't know English to come to a site that appears to be English and have to scroll down to find out they can switch language. It would be great if MyBB could auto-detect where this person is from and automatically switch language accordingly.
(2018-11-29, 01:28 PM)MangaD Wrote: [ -> ]It is not very user friendly to a person who doesn't know English to come to a site that appears to be English and have to scroll down to find out they can switch language. It would be great if MyBB could auto-detect where this person is from and automatically switch language accordingly.
My suggestion is to re-create the login page to accommodate the different languages.
The page can contain options such as:
Log In English - Select This
Log In Chinese - Select This
Log In Other Language (admin will determine the language here) - Select This
You can insert as many languages you want, but you MUST install any new languages from this
FORUM to make everything work properly.
@Serpius What about guests and people who are registering?
I'd much rather use the "Accept-Language" http header than trying to translate an IP to a language.
I am from the United States, but visit Japan on a business trip. While I understand some spoken Japanese, I can't read Kanji.
A niece from Brazil visits my wife and I in the USA, but she doesn't' understand English.
Someone is using an open vpn in a different country to bypass their government's country-wide firewall.
How many people live in the USA who don't speak English?
In Brazil I met a man who moved their from Japan just a week prior and spoke zero Portuguese.
Users should configure their browsers to indicate their preferred language.
Another suggestion would be include a language selector towards the top of the page instead of scrolling all the way down.
(2018-11-29, 07:25 PM)laie_techie Wrote: [ -> ]I'd much rather use the "Accept-Language" http header than trying to translate an IP to a language.
I am from the United States, but visit Japan on a business trip. While I understand some spoken Japanese, I can't read Kanji.
A niece from Brazil visits my wife and I in the USA, but she doesn't' understand English.
Someone is using an open vpn in a different country to bypass their government's country-wide firewall.
How many people live in the USA who don't speak English?
In Brazil I met a man who moved their from Japan just a week prior and spoke zero Portuguese.
Users should configure their browsers to indicate their preferred language.
Another suggestion would be include a language selector towards the top of the page instead of scrolling all the way down.
That's pretty much what I suggested in post #2.
Would be a good feature but only if it can always detect right country and still show English option
(2018-11-29, 07:25 PM)laie_techie Wrote: [ -> ]I'd much rather use the "Accept-Language" http header than trying to translate an IP to a language.
I am from the United States, but visit Japan on a business trip. While I understand some spoken Japanese, I can't read Kanji.
A niece from Brazil visits my wife and I in the USA, but she doesn't' understand English.
Someone is using an open vpn in a different country to bypass their government's country-wide firewall.
How many people live in the USA who don't speak English?
In Brazil I met a man who moved their from Japan just a week prior and spoke zero Portuguese.
Users should configure their browsers to indicate their preferred language.
Another suggestion would be include a language selector towards the top of the page instead of scrolling all the way down.
This.
Plus: there's places (countries) with more than one language. IP from Brussels: Do you serve French or Dutch content? IP from Singapore: Do you serve Malay, Chinese, or Hindi content? Don't override peoples' preferences based on their IP.
@laie_techie Thank you very much for your suggestion. I don't know much about the "Accept-Language" http header. Does the browser send this header to the website?
@Lopot There's an option for registered members to choose their default language. I am only concerned with guests. I think not getting it right all the time is not a big problem. To exemplify, my forum has English and Chinese languages only. It would be hard for a non-Chinese guest to get the Chinese language I think.
For guests, rather that attempting to guess their language, a better placement or redesign of the language selector would be better, something that is more UX/UI friendly.
(2018-12-02, 05:15 PM)MangaD Wrote: [ -> ]@laie_techie Thank you very much for your suggestion. I don't know much about the "Accept-Language" http header. Does the browser send this header to the website?
The Accept-Language http header is constructed by the browser based on the user's configuration.