Suggestion: make language switching available in official web help for 11.10 and 12.04 desktops

[Jeremy Bicha]

On 7 May 2012 09:09, Sergey Papilin <sspapilin at gmail.com> wrote:
> I discovered that https://help.ubuntu.com/11.10/ubuntu-help/ and
> https://help.ubuntu.com/12.04/ubuntu-help/ site directories are available in
> several different languages, but there is no way to switch between them on
> the site itself.
>
> Currently, to access them, you need to manipulate Accept-Language request
> header in your browser. In Firefox, it can be done
> (1) by editing intl.accept_languages preference at about:config page,
> (2) in Preferences->Content->Languages window or
> (3) by using an extension like Quick Locale Switcher.
>
> I think it's better practice for multi-language site to provide some control
> to select the language. It will make difference when a user is not sure
> he/she understands a sentence in his/her current language correctly and
> wants to consult the same page in another, or suspects a translation
> mistake. It will make checking translations for mistakes on-line faster and
> easier.

For context, this was reported as bug 995364 http://pad.lv/995364

For testing translations, I use multiple web browsers, say Firefox and
Chromium. Or you can add the language code suffix: for instance
https://help.ubuntu.com/11.10/ubuntu-help/index.html.fr to view the
French page. (You'll miss out on translated screenshots this way
though.)

Jeremy