Is is just me, but www.xojo.com and any clicked upon tweet, appears in Chinese in Safari on my machine…?
I’m getting English with Safari Version 8.0.4 (10600.4.10.7)
@Jeff: The british Great Porn Firewall? 
That happened to me a few weeks back. I think you have to scroll down to the bottom and select the correct language.
Of course, the bit that allows you to change languages was also in Chinese…
Sorted now. Thanks Russ!
They should simply have clickable flags at the TOP to change the language
Location does not equal language!
The Xojo website looks at the language preferences supplied by the browser, unless the user has chosen a different language using the menu at the bottom. This is correct way more than it is wrong.
[quote=180429:@Thom McGrath]Location does not equal language!
The Xojo website looks at the language preferences supplied by the browser, unless the user has chosen a different language using the menu at the bottom. This is correct way more than it is wrong.[/quote]
Fair enough but not very helpful when you can not read the page enough to know that is what you change for language.
This is why many sites will include their top three languages as little flags on the page. It helps to get the page to a base commonality so they can find the proper setting.
I know it’s common, but it’s wrong.
You make it sound as if a user preferring an immediate visual indication is committing a sin. A user is not an engineer. He or she is a human being reacting to an environment. If the sign is in ideograph Chinese, at the very bottom of the page, it is WAY less ergonomic (human compatible) than a series of flags.
And nothing prevents using a very accurate (right), but slow list of languages at the bottom of the page.
I’m not saying there’s no room for improvement. What I am saying is that simply jumping to the “use flags” option is lazy and wrong. We should strive to come up with a solution that is both usable, and does not propagate incorrect information. I admit that I’m not sure what that solution is. But I do know that “use flags, everybody else does it” is not the right answer. We can do better.
Paypal has a very discrete popupmenu of sorts on the upper right corner of the payment page,
Not a whole collection of languages, but a rather elegant solution I think.
I’m not sure how that’s any different than what Xojo’s website currently does. Xojo merely offers more languages than PayPal does.
Except placing the popup top right is much, much easier than having to discover it at the very bottom of the page. On the Internet, users expect to have information immediately accessible, and from what I recall, have about two seconds patience before they click out. Better not hide language too far, if possible. From what I see, since the popupmenu is white, it would be discrete but easy to find on the right of “Create native cross-platform desktop, web and iOS apps with Xojo”, immediately under the dark picture.
It use to have more prominence, but when Dana and I did this version of the website, our data suggested it was a rarely used item up top. This is because, as I said, our detection method is right way more than it is wrong. So it got demoted.
I think in this case, the link in the tweet contained the language switch tag by mistake. When the user follows, their cookie gets updated. But I haven’t looked at the tweet, I’m only guessing.
If I still had control over the source, I’d probably handle the language switching a little differently to prevent such a possibility.