[Lilux-help] Cable modems

[Alain Knaff]

begin  Friday 04 June 2004 12:51, Brent Frère quote:
> Indeed there is a possibility to select prefered languages in a web
> browser. However the problem here is not this one.
> Google proposes also to set a cookie that contains your preferences
> (click on preferencies on the main page).
>
> The real problem here is indeed related to routing. By using a
> belgian-issued range of IP addresses (and this be routed through
> Belgium), the customers appears as being in Belgium as reported by it's
> source IP address. Thus, Google proposes by default dutch as language,
> even if french is spoken in two third of the country and that german is
> also an official language in Belgium.


Don't worry too badly about google.be; google is known to often screw
up the language.

Google.lu defaults to German, even though near 100% of Luxembourg
actually speaks Luxembourgish, and even though a sizeable amount of
the population (especially the older generations, who lived through
WWII) dislikes it to be lumped together with the Germans.

If Google had a minimum amount of political smartness, they'd have at
least chosen French as the default language for google.lu . Or even
better, they would have applied for a government grant to translate
Google into Luxembourgish ;-)

Alain