Hi, We’re trying to implement a flag in the header that would allow users from particular country to easily change the interface. I’m wondering if it’s possible to change the forum locale via a URL query parameter e.g. ?locale=ja-JP or similar. I have seen the “set locale from accept language head…

You could warn the established users if the change. If think that if someone’s browser is configured for a particular language they’d speak the language well enough to change it in their settings.

@mpalmer thanks for getting back to me. I’m trying to work out if we can link to our forum and have it immediately display in a particular language. When I was talking about a flag in the header, I literally meant an image of a flag (e.g. a japanese flag) in the header or footer of the page that whe…

[image] Dorian_McFarland: I literally meant an image of a flag (e.g. a japanese flag) in the header or footer of the page that when clicked switches the UI to Japanese. OH! I get it. I’ve seen that on lots of sites–click the German flag for German, and so on. It still seems like the ‘get the …

So to answer the question, if we’re talking about a PUT it sounds like it’s only possible to change the locale as a property of the user, rather than at a browser session level, and as such would only be available to registered users. The “locale from the browser for anonymous users” looks like it …

Changing forum locale via URL param

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mpalmer (Matt Palmer) January 11, 2018, 11:34am 2

Isn’t going into the user’s profile and changing their locale sufficiently “obvious and visual”? I don’t think hand-editing URLs to add query params is either of those.

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Changing forum locale via URL param

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