[wp-meta] [Making WordPress.org] #810: WordPress.org lang-guess

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#810: WordPress.org lang-guess
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  Reporter:  marcozink    |      Owner:
      Type:  enhancement  |     Status:  new
  Priority:  normal       |  Component:  International Sites (Rosetta)
Resolution:               |   Keywords:
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Comment (by Otto42):

 The language guess code isn't actually based on location, most of the
 time. It uses IP based location as a fallback, but generally it's actually
 getting the information from your web browser.

 Most browsers have the ability to set the desired Language in some manner.
 This information gets passed along with the request to the server in an
 "Accept-Language" http header. The lang-guess program uses this
 information, compares it with our list of sites, and returns the
 appropriate response, more or less.

 In other words, if your browser was sending Accept-Language: es-cl, then
 you would indeed receive a response that linked to cl.wordpress.org, as
 that site does exist. Similarly, sending it es-pe would cause it to get
 pe.wordpress.org instead.

 This is basically a limitation of the browsers not knowing about those
 locales, or at least not supporting them as separate languages.

 Adding additional IP based lookups to that is possible, but the data for
 IP 2 location is generally pretty bad. It probably wouldn't be very
 accurate. Still, the data is there, so it's worth looking into.

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