[Lilux-help] Cable modems

[Pascal Steichen]

On Fri, Jun 04, 2004 at 01:47:20PM +0200, Alain Knaff wrote:
> 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 ;-)

Yeah this tends to be inn these days ;)

> 
> Alain

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