Tuesday, December 06, 2005

Did I say 'Language Inconsistence' ?

Yesterday, I mentioned the possible confusion when using auto-localized words (such as day names) in your UI.

Some don't need such auto-translations to mess up with languages. Look at that prompt I received from IE/Blogger a few minutes ago:



(I'm not quite sure if the guilty is IE or the Web site)

3 Comments:

At 10:27 PM, Michael Kaplan said...

Looks like the website is the guilty party? The string there looks like the page title....

 
At 9:17 AM, Serge said...

Yes. I digged it a little bit: The French sentence appears as a script variable in the page. I couldn't find a window.confirm() or any other use of that variable but you're probably right: It's Blogger's mistake.

 
At 8:29 PM, arkanes said...

IE is claiming that you're using the French language and Blogger is responding by giving you French translations. I'm not sure how you have your system locale set up so either IE is lying or Blogger is generalizing from incomplete information. Both seem likely.

What you're seeing is a dialog shown by the browser when a script tries to prevent page navigation. The center line of text comes from the script, the rest is from the browser.

 

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