Re: Bug#1032063: www.debian.org: selected language does not follow through to links

On 2023-02-27 13:58, Andreas Rönnquist wrote:
> On Mon, 27 Feb 2023 11:29:51 +0100,
> Drew Parsons<[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> The Debian website has an extensive set of translations of the pages.
>> But when one language is selected, that choice is not followed through
>> when clicking on links.
>> 
> 
> What language the website is shown in is dependant on what language
> your browser is setup to show. (It's a browser setting).
> 
> As you have noticed, the links at the bottom of each page does only
> change to the translated version of the current page, if you then click
> another link it will go back to the browser set language again.
> 
> To make the complete Debian website show in another language, change
> the language setting in your browser. How this is done is described in
> detail on
> 
> https://www.debian.org/intro/cn
> 
> If you for some reason don't want to change the browser language
> setting, there is a way to set a cookie in the browser that also will
> change the shown language. This too is described in the page I just 
> linked.


That approach seems suboptimal, and not consistent with the behaviour 
usually experienced on other websites.

For instance, the Wikipedia article on Debian is 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debian .  If I select language to Italian, 
it sends me to https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debian . If I select links 
from there, e.g. "software libero" ("free and open-source software"), it 
remains in italiano, e.g. forwarding to 
https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_libero .  No fiddling about with 
system language or cookies required.

Another example, the KTH university site. https://www.kth.se/ goes to 
the Swedish home page. If I click on "International website", it goes to 
https://www.kth.se/en in English.  Then if I click on "About KTH", for 
instance, it forwards to https://www.kth.se/en/om, still in English. It 
doesn't revert back to the original Swedish page, https://www.kth.se/om.

Sometimes you just want to inspect the information in the other 
language, e.g. to show to a friend who speaks that language. It doesn't 
always mean you want the default langauge on your system to be set to 
that language.