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Garrett Wollmanwollman@mastodon.social
Oct 12, 2026, 7:34 PM
@unixsmurf @0xabad1dea Imagine you're looking at maps of a bilingual country, and it appears that which language is chosen for any given label is chosen by a PRNG. You'd think that the rule would be simple: if the user has selected one of the languages as their locale, always use that one; otherwise, use the one that is the majority language for the location in question, because that's the one foreigners are most likely to see. But NOOOOOOO.
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Garrett Wollmanwollman@mastodon.social
Oct 12, 2026, 7:39 PM
@unixsmurf @0xabad1dea (Can you tell I've been looking at maps of Finland recently? I know which parts of Finland are Swedish-speaking. I am not a Swedish speaker, and if I know the name of anything it's probably the Finnish name if not just the English translation. Showing me Swedish, unless it's like Karis or Mariehamn(*), doesn't do me a bit of good, especially when I'm not physically there to read a street sign.)
(*) Which I know as Maarianhamina but it's officially monolingual Swedish.
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