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		KTibow 12 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Show HN: I made my own OS from scratch because I w... fyi, you can automatically detect the user's language and switch to English when applicable by using `navigator.language`... ...or even better, don't use JS (which doesn't work on older browsers and prevents some optimizations), and read the Accept-Language header instead

account42 12 months ago [–]

And please do NOT do what gogle does and pretend that certain values in the Accept-Language header don't indicate a user preference and you should guess based on the IP address instead.

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