<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 10:46 PM, Ian Hickson <span dir="ltr"><ian@hixie.ch></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div class="Ih2E3d">On Wed, 5 Nov 2008, Samuel Santos wrote:<br>
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> I find it very hard to convince some clients that in order to have the<br>
> browse button in their language they must configure their browsers. The<br>
> vast majority of them don't even know where they can configure the<br>
> default browser language, and don't feel they should even have to do it.<br>
> It's also strange for them to have all the buttons in their language<br>
> except the browse buttons.<br>
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</div>I understand but why don't they also complain about, say, the title of the<br>
dialog box that comes up? Or the items on the context menus?<br>
<br>
Why do they use the wrong language browser in the first place?</blockquote><div><br></div><div>In Portugal a lot computers come with the english OS version.<div>This means that the browser is in english and configured to have english as the default language.<br>
</div><div><br></div><div>The problem with the input file button is that the client/user assumes that the text that appears in it is the developer's responsibility, like with the other button controls.<br></div><div>In the example you gave he knows that the dialog box is from the UA (browser) and has nothing to do with the rest of the application.</div>
<div><br></div><div>I'm pretty sure that this happens a lot in non-english countries.</div></div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"><br>
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