@hongminhee Serious question. How do platforms that...

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@hongminhee Serious question. How do platforms that accept user-generated content handle this?

Take Mastodon for example, if three users send a post, one in Chinese, one in Korean, one in Japanese, and the app is international, how would this be handled? How should this be handled?

Are apps targeting the Asian market rewquiring the user to correctly fill in the "language" field each time? Are you effectively required to include AI-based language detection in each product? Are browsers truly unable to figure this out on their own when there's no lang attribute present?

Like 29 August at 14:21 | Wall-to-wall | Open on dragonscave.space

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洪民憙 (Hong Minhee)

@miki On the web, it's common to specify the lang attribute in the top-level <html> tag. Internationalized apps will prefer the user's locale setting.

29 August at 14:29 | Open on fosstodon.org

Kevin Boyd

@miki @hongminhee maston lets users specify a default language & change the language on a per-post basis when they are composing posts.

29 August at 19:21 | Open on phpc.social

Chris Abbey

@kboyd @miki @hongminhee sadly, a lot of users don’t bother to do either. A couple of hashtags I follow are very popular amongst users who speak languages I don’t, and while I have configured my client to only show posts in the three languages I have any chance at all with, I still scroll past a lot of content I can’t read. (Which claims to be posted in English, but absolutely isn’t.)

30 August at 6:38 | Open on phpc.social