Default language setting behaviour

[wesley]

This is a strange quirk I noticed while testing Korean translations (I think
I might finish translating all core plugins soon, if I don't get distracted).
Configuring the default language in the general 'Configuration' page does
not stick. I tried to change this to anything other than the current language,
press check & save, and well, no effect. I thought maybe I messed some
stuff up so I tried to restore to its 'original' conditions as much as possible.
No avail.

Then, I tried to change the default language setting in the admin user's
personal settings. This works. It even changed the default language
setting in the Configuration page. Ehh. What the?

[garvinhicking]

The personal preference langauge always overrides the "default language".

The default language is the shown language for users that are not logged into the blog (=visitors).

And if you haven't enabled Language Auto-Negotiation, it's the only language that gets displayed to visitors...

Regards,
Garvin

[wesley]

Okay, that makes a bit more sense.

[randulo]

I was kind of put off by this but the easiest solution is to have two browsers. As a developer, I always have at least MSIE and FF on every PC anyway, and since I need to look at the result in both, I keep MSIE open (not logged in) and use it to look at new or modified items in all languages.

This said, I wouldn't cry if there was an OPTION to ignore the default language in the site view mode