Loomio
Sun 14 Apr 2013 1:37AM

User language settings

RDB Richard D. Bartlett Public Seen by 75

We need to design the language setting feature. Some things to consider:

  • presumably the browser will identify the user's preferred language, but there also needs to be the option to override this setting, e.g. a dropdown in the header as Rafael suggests:
  • it may be useful to have a per-group default language. E.g. if a Spanish-speaking admin sets up a group and then invites 100 people, it would be nice if all those users have their language pre-selected to Spanish, so they receive emails in their mother tongue from the outset.
  • should we have a 'change my language' link in the bottom of every email the way we have 'change my email settings'?
  • what else do we need to consider?
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Aaron Thornton Tue 16 Apr 2013 9:33PM

@richarddbartlett, Any reason we dont just the browser setting the default for the user, which they can override like you suggested at sign in and on the settings page. Do we need to have the admin step?

RDB

Richard D. Bartlett Wed 17 Apr 2013 1:19AM

@aaronthornton because we need to know what language to send the invite email in, which needs to be decided before the user first visits the app and their browser supplies their preferences.

Also the articles I read suggest that the browser settings can be a little bit patchy so you want to provide a way to override it.