Site/page-specific "language" setting
Stefan Kanthak
Unfortunately the "language" setting is not amongst them.
So: add the "language" setting to the site/page-specific settings!
Rationale: some web sites (like http://support.microsoft.com/kb/*) use
the browsers language setting to reply with an (often poor) automatic
translation. Anything but the untranslated original (english) version
on these sites is barely comprehensible.
Stefan
the Expert
Nonsense. Opera uses the language it is told by the settings, nothing more.
Other needed languages are possibly not loaded. Otherwise in MS-Think
spellchecking is the job of the OS (not the browser). Try another OS!
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Roland Reck
> 25.11.2010, 18:40, Stefan Kanthak <postmaster@[127.0.0.1]>:
>
>> Opera supports site/page-specific settings.
>> Unfortunately the "language" setting is not amongst them.
+1
In the meantime you can try to set a site specific setting for the page,
close Opera and open the
override.ini
in your profile folder with a UTF-8 capable editor like Notepad++. Search
for the section with the
[site.name.tld]
of the site you want to change and insert the line
Network|HTTP Accept Language=en
to the other entries, save it and start Opera again.
You should be able to set the value after the = to any valid value of your
choice, but may be you have to use quotes around the parameter because of
the ; in more complex strings with weighting factors.
No warranty that it will work, but worth a try ;)
The measure described above might not help if they use the IP sniffer to
determine your location.
>> So: add the "language" setting to the site/page-specific settings!
>> Rationale: some web sites (like http://support.microsoft.com/kb/*) use
>> the browsers language setting to reply with an (often poor) automatic
>> translation. Anything but the untranslated original (english) version
>> on these sites is barely comprehensible.
> Nonsense. Opera uses the language it is told by the settings, nothing
> more.
Stefan just wants to a site specific setting for the accept language in
the UI. What's your problem with that?
> Other needed languages are possibly not loaded.
What language file is loaded by Opera has nothing to do with the language
a website delivers. I use the english UI but as accept languages de, en,
fr and es with different weighting factors.
<rant>
> Otherwise in MS-Think spellchecking is the job of the OS (not the
> browser).
Wrong. They just read the information from the browsers accept language or
may be the location based on the IP and deliver the content in the
language that would be appropriate according to that. It is just a service
for non-English speakers. Stefan complained because he can make more sense
from the original English version instead of the automatically translated
(German?) version. The same goes for me: I always prefer the original
above an automated translation if I can read the language.
> Try another OS!
Why should I change from a full featured OS to a barely working one that
has NO working alternative to 3/4 of the software I use? ***X is good for
servers, not for desktops :p
</rant>
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Eik
> Nonsense.
You don't appear to have any understanding of what you're replying to.
The OP wants to vary the language token in their UA string and HTTP
request headers on a site-by-site basis rather than globally.
Stefan Kanthak
> On Fri, 26 Nov 2010 01:40:26 +0100, the Expert <hi...@loop.de> wrote:
Is your filter not working?
People who can't barely write their own name are not worth reading!
>> 25.11.2010, 18:40, Stefan Kanthak <postmaster@[127.0.0.1]>:
>>
>>> Opera supports site/page-specific settings.
>>> Unfortunately the "language" setting is not amongst them.
>
> +1
>
> In the meantime you can try to set a site specific setting for the page,
> close Opera and open the
>
> override.ini
See <news:httdgn$qbd$1...@news.opera.com> (opera.deutsch, 2010-05-30):
BTDTGNTS
> The measure described above might not help if they use the IP sniffer to
> determine your location.
Right.
But web masters who try to determine the wanted language from a somehow
guessed location instead of respecting the HTTP headers are idiots!
>>> So: add the "language" setting to the site/page-specific settings!
>>> Rationale: some web sites (like http://support.microsoft.com/kb/*) use
>>> the browsers language setting to reply with an (often poor) automatic
>>> translation. Anything but the untranslated original (english) version
>>> on these sites is barely comprehensible.
>
>> Nonsense. Opera uses the language it is told by the settings, nothing
>> more.
>
> Stefan just wants to a site specific setting for the accept language in
> the UI. What's your problem with that?
It looks that this "Expert" never heard of HTTP content negotiation.
JFTR: this is a rather old concept, introduced in the last century.
Stefan
Roland Reck
<postmaster@[127.0.0.1]> wrote:
> See <news:httdgn$qbd$1...@news.opera.com> (opera.deutsch, 2010-05-30):
> BTDTGNTS
D**n! Would have been really fine ...
Stefan Kanthak
Since 11.01 it looks as if a manual edit of OVERRIDE.INI does the job,
at least for <http://support.microsoft.com/kb/*>
Stefan
Stefan Kanthak
It only LOOKED so, my statement is WRONG: I had used the language setting
on <http://support.microsoft.com/common/international.aspx> and forgot
about this.
Stefan