My take on internationalization is that I want to see less of it.
I am Russian living in Switzerland, where people speak French, (Swiss) German, Italian and Romansh. I often travel to Barcelona, where people speak Catalan and Spanish. I don’t want any of these languages, I want all sites in English.
This is hard to achieve, as nearly everybody uses geolinked internationalization. It is awful. Especially here in Switzerland — almost every site tries to show me the German version by default (most of Swiss cantons are German-speaking, but mine speaks French).
Please just use English. Or if you must, enable language selection in users profile, do not try to detect it from geographic location.
I am Russian living in Switzerland, where people speak French, (Swiss) German, Italian and Romansh. I often travel to Barcelona, where people speak Catalan and Spanish. I don’t want any of these languages, I want all sites in English.
This is hard to achieve, as nearly everybody uses geolinked internationalization. It is awful. Especially here in Switzerland — almost every site tries to show me the German version by default (most of Swiss cantons are German-speaking, but mine speaks French).
Please just use English. Or if you must, enable language selection in users profile, do not try to detect it from geographic location.