Dear modern browsers: The site I'm working on is NOT Portuguese. Don't offer to translate it when there are literally ze - devRant

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EmberQuill

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I wonder if it's a bug or something. I made a simple webpage with one English sentence when I was learning how to use a new backend server, and my browser offered to translate it from Czech.
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nitnip

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Probably. I mean from what I've read on the matter browsers don't even read take the lang attribute into consideration.

<html lang="en"> literally does nothing.
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Oktokolo

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Also: "We see that you send a preferred languages header mentioning English while your IP looks suspiciously french - so _French_site_only_ for you!"
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12bitfloat

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What gets me every time is the "Always english" button on MDN that forgets your choice on the next visit anyways..
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AlmondSauce

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Languages in browsers are annoying, and the browsers make things way worse by trying to guess this crap, meaning devs can get away with implementing it badly in the first place.

Imho they should just use the language tag, the language header, and if your website doesn't respond well to that, tough.
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Lensflare

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Automatic forced translations - the cancer of the current internet.
Yes, I’m looking at you, YouTube!

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