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Re: Ubuntu Browser doesn't present system language to websites.

 

On Thu, Jun 11, 2015 at 4:25 PM, Simos Xenitellis
<simos.lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>
> On Thu, Jun 11, 2015 at 11:09 AM, Nathan Haines <nhaines@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> On 06/11/2015 12:25 AM, Simos Xenitellis wrote:
>>>
>>> Have a look at
>>>
>>> https://askubuntu.com/questions/578455/how-can-i-set-the-user-agent-in-a-webapp
>>> which shows two ways to set the User Agent for a webapp.
>>> It could be something similar to set the Accept-Language header field.
>>
>>
>> The first version was born specifically because Tutanota claimed to have
>> whitelisted the Ubuntu browser but did not for another week or so.  I
>> created the webapp because the website really does provide a premium mobile
>> experience.  I hope to build a 'native' Cordova app in the future and was
>> invited by the Tutanota team to send pull requests to the github project.
>>
>> The only way it would be acceptable to set the Accept-Language header
>> field specifically would be if I wanted a separate German webapp in the
>> store.  I already had professional localization offered for the German
>> description.  Since most users are German, I'd like for their system
>> language settings to be automatically detected and not have 10 identical
>> entries in the Ubuntu App Store.  (Which I can't do anyway because it's not
>> possible to set the Accept-Language header from the command line anyway.)
>>
>> Thank you for the LP project name.  I'll file a bug as promised.
>>
>
> Thanks for filing the report. I found it and added some more information.
> Here is the link in case someone else wants to subscribe and follow it,
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/webbrowser-app/+bug/1464159

Thanks Nathan and Simos for the constructive discussion. It turns out
this is a regression in the oxide packages (this used to work), we’re
fixing it right now.

Cheers,

 Olivier


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