Apparently, only portions of Blogger are translated. Yesterday, only the homepage was translated in French, today they added the dashboard.
I am using two computers, one set in English, the other in French. It seems that if Windows (not your browser) is in English, Blogger displays in English. |
The language you get depends on the "Accept-Language" header your browser sends. Compare the following two queries I sent in order to see how blogger decides which language to present:
GET / HTTP/1.1
Host: www.blogger.com
User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0
Accept: text/xml,application/xml, application/xhtml+xml,text/html;q=0.9,text/plain;q=0.8, image/png,*/*;q=0.5
Accept-Language: de,en-us,en
Accept-Charset: ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7
Keep-Alive: 300
Connection: keep-alive
Accept-encoding: gzip, deflate
=> "Erstellen Sie einen Blog in 3 einfachen Schritten"
GET / HTTP/1.1
Host: www.blogger.com
User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0
Accept: text/xml,application/xml, application/xhtml+xml,text/html;q=0.9,text/plain;q=0.8, image/png,*/*;q=0.5
Accept-Language: en-us,en
Accept-Charset: ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7
Keep-Alive: 300
Connection: keep-alive
Accept-encoding: gzip, deflate
=> "Create a blog in 3 easy steps"
The Proxomitron local proxy makes it easy to edit the headers you send :-).
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The "accept-language" headers should depend on the browser language settings. That's content-negotiation, but it doesn't look as if Blogger would respect it. After all, I can do it myself on sites like Findforward.com and it works with my browsers... |
Is there any other way Blogger could determine your preferred language? Of course, they could trace the ip back to your country – but apparently they don't: I'm in Germany and the language I get depends on the Accept-Language-header my browser sends.
Did you try clearing your cookies? Visiting blogger.com with another browser?
By the way, I just tried to change the order of Opera's list of preferred languages – and blogger changes the language of the interface just fine.
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I just removed my cookies, and now it worked! I don't know if that was it, but it looks so. Thanks! |
PS: Google.com definitely traces my IP to do geo-location (but I can easily click on "Google in English" and it wil set a cookie). |
Biz has made it public in both the Googleblog and Blogger.com |
