Facebook signup in foreign language

[Stuart Bishop]

When I try to add a facebook account, the activation screen is displayed in Thai. Although I am in Thailand, I cannot read Thai. If possible, the system preferred language should be passed through to Facebook so globe trotting users can get through the process.

[Jean-Louis Dupond (dupondje)]

Same issue here (Ubuntu Lucid).

I'm in belgium, and its opening facebook in French. This is not my native language, it should be Dutch the half op belgium speaks :)

[.cobnet (mattias-campe)]

Same issue as Jean-Louis Dupond (which actually sound quite French ;) ): would like to read Dutch (or English), but I get a page in French. For your information:
~$ locale
LANG=nl_BE.utf8
LC_CTYPE="nl_BE.utf8"
LC_NUMERIC="nl_BE.utf8"
LC_TIME="nl_BE.utf8"
LC_COLLATE="nl_BE.utf8"
LC_MONETARY="nl_BE.utf8"
LC_MESSAGES="nl_BE.utf8"
LC_PAPER="nl_BE.utf8"
LC_NAME="nl_BE.utf8"
LC_ADDRESS="nl_BE.utf8"
LC_TELEPHONE="nl_BE.utf8"
LC_MEASUREMENT="nl_BE.utf8"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="nl_BE.utf8"
LC_ALL=

More information (like screenshots) can be found in the duplicate of this bug, namely https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gwibber/+bug/553349 .

[Jordan Farrell (feralbytes)]

I linked my Bug which has a user question attached to it as a duplicate of this bug. When I had filed the bug I did not find this one when searching using launchpad. But Google turned it up today. Bug#585124 marked with an importance of Low. Please upgrade Bug# 571132 to an importance of low.

[Jordan Farrell (feralbytes)]

OK, Seriously what has to be done in order to get this bug upgraded (It was already given a higher priority for a duplicate bug!). It is inhibiting me (And apparently anyone who does not speak the language in the country they currently reside!) from fully enjoying the default features in my new Ubuntu (10.04) install. I am trying to be more efficient with my social networking and fixing this would go a long ways towards making me more efficient. A single point of contact for all of my social networking...

[Omer Akram (om26er)]

I dont think there is much that can be done. (maybe I am wrong) but in future gwibber will be using oAuth for facebook.

[Scott Severance (scott.severance)]

Facebook apparently uses IP geolocation to determine the default language, not the browser's list of preferred languages. So, to make Facebook work correctly, I think we need to send the browser's cookies in Gwibber. That way, the language override that FB uses will be present.

[Stuart Bishop (stub)]

On Sun, Jun 6, 2010 at 8:17 PM, Scott Severance <email address hidden> wrote:
> Facebook apparently uses IP geolocation to determine the default
> language, not the browser's list of preferred languages. So, to make
> Facebook work correctly, I think we need to send the browser's cookies
> in Gwibber. That way, the language override that FB uses will be
> present.

Accept-Language HTTP headers might work too.

(Or raising the issue with Facebook if anyone has contacts there).

[Scott Severance (scott.severance)]

Actually, Facebook seems to ignore the Accept-Language header, as do several other major sites (Google, Skype, and probably others). I don't know why they choose IP geolocation over the Accept-Language header. It's possible that the header is sometimes set incorrectly, but I'm guessing it's acceptable more often than geolocation is. However, with many major players operating the same way, it's not likely that Facebook will change.

[momoxxen (aiman0906)]

i cant authenticate my facebook on gwibber. here's a screenshot.
some people said i need to remove my language. but my ubuntu is already in english.
can u help me out?

p/s: for your info, that language displayed in gwibber is Malay

[Jeff Stone (stone1343)]

When I did the oauth thing for Twitter, the dialog came up in French. Is that related to this bug?

[Omer Akram (om26er)]

I was wondering if it comes up in another language does putting in your
username and password not let you login?

> When I did the oauth thing for Twitter, the dialog came up in French. Is
> that related to this bug?

[Jeff Stone (stone1343)]

Omer, no it worked fine. Fortunately, even if you have no French, most English people could probably figure it out if they had to, but something completely different, like Arabic or Chinese? No way... :-)

[Stuart Bishop (stub)]

@Jeff Stone - that would be a similar but separate bug. If Facebook provide an API allowing Gwibber to specify the language of the authentication screens, that won't help Twitter issues at all.

[Max Waterman (davidmaxwaterman+launchpad)]

@stone1343 @stub
> that would be a similar but separate bug

I filed Bug #928115 for the same problem but with twitter