| Maarten At Vvtp Dot Tn Dot Tudelft Dot Nl 2004-07-20, 8:56 pm |
| ID: 26353
Comment by: maarten at vvtp dot tn dot tudelft dot nl
Reported By: mmeijers at gmx dot net
Status: No Feedback
Bug Type: Website problem
Operating System: Windows / Mozilla/5.0
PHP Version: Irrelevant
New Comment:
Something is f*cked up really bad, I also suddenly got all german
pages. Please just feed me what I ask for: I say www.php.net and just
want English. Computers thinking for you, that's exactly the point
where you don't want them to go. People visiting this site are smart
enough to make their own choices. Coincidentally the mirror you bounce
me to (somewhere in the Netherlands I presume) had some
misconfiguration a few w s ago giving just errors. Then I say
www.php.net and your stupid 'smart' script bounces me back where I
DON'T want to be. Please don't become Microsoft. Register Globals was a
mistake but I'll forgive. Trying to think for me I will not.
Besides the fact that the systems thinks I'm a german, the (Dutch)
translations are generally of very poor quality. I have to translate
back to english to understand what it's telling me.
Please get rid of this system and make a flashy button: 'View php.net
in Dutch' when detecting I'm =probably= Dutch.
Here's the output of the php.net/my thing:
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My PHP.net
This page allows you to customize the PHP.net site to some degree to
your own liking.
These settings will be active on all official PHP.net mirror sites, and
are stored using cookies, so you need to have cookies enabled to let
your settings work.
Preferred language
If you use a shortcut or search for a function, the language used is
determined by checking for the following settings. The list is in
priority order, the first is the most important. Normally you don't
need to set your preferred language, as your last seen language is
always remembered, and is a good estimate on your preferred language
most of the time.
Your preferred language
Last seen language de
Your Accept-Language browser setting en-us,en;q=0.5
The mirror's default language nl
Default en
These settings are only overriden in case you have passed a language
setting URL parameter or POST data to a page or you are viewing a
manual page in a particular language. In these cases, the explicit
specification overrides the language selected from the above list.
The language setting is honored when you use an URL shortcut, when you
start a function list search on a non-manual page, when you visit the
manual download or language selection pages, etc.
Your country
The PHP.net site and mirror sites try to detect your country using the
Directi Ip-to-Country Database. This information is used to mark the
events in your country specially and to offer close mirror sites if
possible on the download page and on the mirror listing page.
We detected that you are from Netherlands
....
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I would say I once got a google hit or something that was german, and
ever since you think I a German.
Did I say this system is stupid? It is. Please remove it. It might
sound rude what I'm saying here but it took me too long to finally
figure this thing out.
Regards, Maarten
Previous Comments:
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[2004-07-21 02:11:52] maarten at vvtp dot tn dot tudelft dot nl
Something is f*cked up really bad, I also suddenly got all german
pages. Please just feed me what I ask for: I say www.php.net and just
want English. Computers thinking for you, that's exactly the point
where you don't want them to go. People visiting this site are smart
enough to make their own choices. Coincidentally the mirror you bounce
me to (somewhere in the Netherlands I presume) had some
misconfiguration a few ws ago giving just errors. Then I say
www.php.net and your stupid 'smart' script bounces me back where I
DON'T want to be. Please don't become Microsoft. Register Globals was a
mistake but I'll forgive. Trying to think for me I will not.
Besides the fact that the systems thinks I'm a german, the (Dutch)
translations are generally of very poor quality. I have to translate
back to english to understand what it's telling me.
Please get rid of this system and make a flashy button: 'View php.net
in Dutch' when detecting I'm =probably= Dutch.
Here's the output of the php.net/my thing:
---------
My PHP.net
This page allows you to customize the PHP.net site to some degree to
your own liking.
These settings will be active on all official PHP.net mirror sites, and
are stored using cookies, so you need to have cookies enabled to let
your settings work.
Preferred language
If you use a shortcut or search for a function, the language used is
determined by checking for the following settings. The list is in
priority order, the first is the most important. Normally you don't
need to set your preferred language, as your last seen language is
always remembered, and is a good estimate on your preferred language
most of the time.
Your preferred language
Last seen language de
Your Accept-Language browser setting en-us,en;q=0.5
The mirror's default language nl
Default en
These settings are only overriden in case you have passed a language
setting URL parameter or POST data to a page or you are viewing a
manual page in a particular language. In these cases, the explicit
specification overrides the language selected from the above list.
The language setting is honored when you use an URL shortcut, when you
start a function list search on a non-manual page, when you visit the
manual download or language selection pages, etc.
Your country
The PHP.net site and mirror sites try to detect your country using the
Directi Ip-to-Country Database. This information is used to mark the
events in your country specially and to offer close mirror sites if
possible on the download page and on the mirror listing page.
We detected that you are from Netherlands
....
--------
I would say I once got a google hit or something that was german, and
ever since you think I a German.
Did I say this system is stupid? It is. Please remove it. It might
sound rude what I'm saying here but it took me too long to finally
figure this thing out.
Regards, Maarten
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[2003-12-01 03:15:16] sniper@php.net
No feedback was provided. The bug is being suspended because
we assume that you are no longer experiencing the problem.
If this is not the case and you are able to provide the
information that was requested earlier, please do so and
change the status of the bug back to "Open". Thank you.
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[2003-11-24 06:20:22] goba@php.net
Since you have these correct language values set in My PHP.net, do you
still experience the problem of getting a manual in German?
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[2003-11-24 03:08:27] mmeijers at gmx dot net
Somehow everything is normal now. I really don't know, how it came that
the language switched to German.
www.php.net/my gave:
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Your preferred language Not Set
Last seen language en
Your Accept-Language browser setting en-us,en;q=0.5
The mirror's default language nl
Default en
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What should help is giving a link on the mainpage to changing the
default language (to the http://www.php.net/my you gave me) in the
layout somewhere.
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[2003-11-22 05:36:52] goba@php.net
I have asked you to visit the My PHP.net page. What can you see there
in the list of languages? Do you still get the pages in German for URL
shortcuts?
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