Task #2953
www.libreoffice.org should redirect to environment (locale) setting
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Description
When typing the LibreOffice URL (www.libreoffice.org or libreoffice.org) in a web-browser, it currently always goes to the English language edition (https://www.libreoffice.org/). It should go to the language locale edition of LibreOffice.
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Set the locale to hu (Hungarian)
2. Type libreoffice.org into the address bar of a web-browser
Actual Results:
3. The LibreOffice English version opens, i.e. https://www.libreoffice.org/
Expected Results:
3. The LibreOffice Hungarian version opens, i.e. https://hu.libreoffice.org/
or perhaps the website needs a paradigm shift and the webpage that opens is:
https://wwww.libreoffice.org/hu
or
https://www.libreoffice.org/?lang=hu
or
https://www.libreoffice.org/?hl=hu
- Mozilla Thunderbird as thunderbird.net redirects to https://www.thunderbird.net/hu/ and is in Hungarian
- Jami as jami.net opens as https://jami.net/ as is in Hungarian. Likewise you can explicitly go to the Hungarian version with https://jami.net/?lang=hu
- VLC as videolan.org opens as https://www.videolan.org/ as is in Hungarian
- Mozilla Firefox www.mozilla.com/firefox/ redirects to https://www.mozilla.org/hu/firefox/ and is in Hungarian
- MuseScore musescore.org redirects to https://musescore.org/hu and is in Hungarian (where the strings have not yet been translated into Hungarian they are in English)
What do you think?
Thank you
History
Updated by Florian Effenberger over 1 year ago
There IIRC is a ticket somewhere about showing a banner on the websites
when the page opened differs from the browser locale. I can't find the
ticket ID at the moment, but I think that Jean Spiteri was working on it
- maybe some other approach we can consider too?
Updated by Jean Spiteri over 1 year ago
- Assignee set to Jean Spiteri
The issue being mentioned here is #2032. I'll assign it to myself. I won't touch it for the other settings (whether it is a duplicate or the priority is right).
Updated by . Óvári over 1 year ago
Does PHP User Agent Language Detection https://techpatterns.com/downloads/php_language_detection.php help?
Updated by Jean Spiteri over 1 year ago
The current patch has been reuploaded to the test site. You can see it from https://newdesign.libreoffice.org/events-map/. Does this fit the request?
Updated by Jean Spiteri over 1 year ago
Please note that the language detection is not working because of the way the site is built. The problem will fix itself once uploaded to the official site.