automatic check location and then select board languge

[MR-AMIR]

Hi
I think it is a simple Features for users...
Always i search for a MOD to auto view user location and IP and also change board language...
example: If i visit of site with IRAN IP show iran flags and then auto change board language to Persian...

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View idea at: automatic check location and then select board languge

Posted by MR-AMIR

[KevC]

Not as a built in core function. There are far too many exceptions to your rule and besides which IP is generally a terrible way of determining anything.

[brunoais]

If it was from the accept-language (I think it uses it already), then it would be right. From the IP, no way! I'm already sick enough that many websites appear in brazilian portuguese where I'm asking them to appear in english!

[AmigoJack]

Same as above: HTTP provides Accept-Language for every client since ages, whereas a location has nothing to do with a language (mind all those nations with multiple languages).

[Big Mac]

Ack! If I go on holiday to Europe and want to log into a forum, I don't want it to switch me from English to a language I don't know.

I already write on a French forum (when I do not speak French) and I have to get Google Translate to help me find the buttons for logging in and posting there. If phpBB implemented this as a feature, and a forum automatically assumed I did not want to be using English, it would actually make things harder for me.

However, what might be nice is if the forum could ask a question along the lines of: "It looks like you are browsing from Persia - do you want the forum to talk to you in Persian?"* when people were creating accounts. Something like that might help multi-language forums. However, I suspect that most forums are used by people who speak a single language. So I would say this should be a mod rather than a core features.

* = At the risk of replacing Bertie with Clippy!