Firefox ignores language settings

[Tim]

On Wed, 2005-10-05 at 18:32 +0200, Harald Grossauer wrote:
> For webpages which are available in different languages the preferred
> languages can be set in Preferences/General/Languages. Unfortunately
> this does not work for me. Although I have set de-de (German) as
> prefered language

Do you also have just "de" set?  Some sites aren't set up to do language
negotiation properly.  I'm Australian, and I ended up setting mine thus,
to cover all events:

en-AU
en-GB
en-US
en

> the page http://www2.uibk.ac.at/fakultaeten/
> is always displayed in english. I guess the problem is that the browser
> identifies itself as
> Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050922

This shouldn't affect language settings, unless the website uses some
very stupid ways of deciding what language pages to give you.

If you've changed your settings after a visit to that site, you may need
to clear cookies, force a reload, and/or clear the cache.  You probably
also need to be at a page that is up for negotiation, not already at a
specific language page.

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