That's interesting.
To go back to the original question. How easy is it to change the interface language without the log-in? or would the Wookie (Wiki-cookie :-)) stored on the computer constantly swap the UI back to the one set in User Prefs?
Has anyone seen a Wiki with the UI language choice promoted to the Main page rather than hidden in User Prefs?
On 4/27/05, Brion Vibber brion@pobox.com wrote:
Muke Tever wrote:
I was just about to ask about this as well. Is there (or could there be), say, a magic URL string to append, like &lang=fr , to force the fr UI to be displayed?
There is not. Hypothetically something could be added with some effort. Maintaining it across invocations would probably require some cookie / session work, and you'd need to be careful about cache integrity.
In a similar vein, is there a magic word that automatically returns the current interface language code?
The _content_ of pages is immutable, and will never differ based on the user interface language setting. (Only a very few user options affect the output of the wiki -> HTML transformation, and we're working hard to eliminate them completely because of the trouble they cause.) This goes doubly for things containing links, categories, images, etc: anything that is kept track of cannot change or you'll have database corruption on your hands.
We already have huge troubles maintaining database integrity in the face of date and time variables and templates.
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)
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