[whatwg] Proposal: Locale Preferences API

[Jungshik Shin (신정식, 申政湜)]

2013/11/27 Jukka K. Korpela <jkorpela at cs.tut.fi>

> 2013-11-28 0:20, Boris Zbarsky wrote:
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>  On 11/27/13 4:28 PM, Jungshik Shin (신정식, 申政湜) wrote:
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>>> That is, I suggest that 'navigator.language' always be the UI language
>>> of a
>>> web browser.
>>>
>>
>> That's an unacceptable privacy leak from Mozilla's point of view.  See
>> https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=55366 where we explicitly
>> switched from that to basing navigator.language on the Accept header.
>>
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> More importantly, I would say, the browser’s UI language should normally
> be completely irrelevant to page design and implementation.
>


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> I might be using an English-language browser because there is no better
> option (localizations are lousy). This does not mean that when viewing a
> page in, say, German, I would want the page to talk to me in English, to
> use English-language month names in date controls and info, etc.
>
>

Sure. I don't disagree with you.  But, I have no idea what you wrote above
has anything to do with what I wrote, i.e navigator.language (singular)
containing the UI language and navigator.languages (plural)  matching the
Accept-Language HTTP header.

Jungshik



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