{"id":658,"date":"2014-11-01T13:40:31","date_gmt":"2014-11-01T12:40:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/anjo.pt\/wp\/?p=658"},"modified":"2015-02-19T15:48:07","modified_gmt":"2015-02-19T15:48:07","slug":"language-preference-and-cookies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anjo.pt\/marimekko\/2014\/11\/01\/language-preference-and-cookies\/","title":{"rendered":"Language preference and cookies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/anjo.pt\/wordpress-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/language-cookies.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-661 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/anjo.pt\/wordpress-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/language-cookies.jpg\" alt=\"Webmasters: Please keep the language choice into a cookie\" width=\"640\" height=\"457\" \/><\/a>One can not like cookies, but they can in some situations be very useful. I have as preference in my browser the languages in the following order: English, Portuguese, French.<\/p>\n<p>In Switzerland with several national languages most websites have by default the German language. First time I visit them I change to French or English. Second time I visit the same website I would expect that he remembers that I read the website in other language than German. Unfortunately this is not the case.<\/p>\n<p>Webmasters should think about using cookies to keep the language preference of the user. I see none in Switzerland doing it.<\/p>\n<p>Some sites have different web addresses depending the language they target &#8211; meteosuisse.ch, meteoschweiz.ch or cff.ch, sbb.ch, ffs.ch. This works well. But the remaining &#8211; coop.ch and sunrise.ch &#8211; always in German; swisscom.ch &#8211; defaults to browser language, english site for me; migros.ch, orange.ch &#8211; defaults to browser language, german site if brower asks english&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Dear webmasters: please use cookies instead of obliging the user to change language each time he visits your\u00a0website!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One can not like cookies, but they can in some situations be very useful. I have as preference in my browser the languages in the following order: English, Portuguese, French. In Switzerland with several national languages most websites have by default the German language. First time I visit them I change to French or English. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-658","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-stories","7":"category-uncategorized","8":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anjo.pt\/marimekko\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/anjo.pt\/marimekko\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/anjo.pt\/marimekko\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anjo.pt\/marimekko\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anjo.pt\/marimekko\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=658"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/anjo.pt\/marimekko\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":668,"href":"https:\/\/anjo.pt\/marimekko\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658\/revisions\/668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anjo.pt\/marimekko\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anjo.pt\/marimekko\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anjo.pt\/marimekko\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}