start.ubuntu.com should redirect based on user's language

[Jeremy Bícha]

The default homepage is set in Ubuntu's default browser via this code in ubufox: http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-branches/ubuntu/oneiric/ubufox/oneiric/view/head:/components/aboutStartpage.js

...which conveniently opens start.ubuntu.com for the user based on the user's language. Unfortunately, this can't be used by other web browsers such as Chromium, Empathy, etc. Empathy in particular uses the out-of-date file:///usr/share/ubuntu-artwork/home/index.html as its homepage which is bug 258938.

I see the ideal solution would be for start.ubuntu.com to recognize the user's language and redirect to the appropriate translated version based on that. Then all Ubuntu alternative web browsers can have the nice branded webpage you all produce.