Translate.net Main_page does not show right translation for zh-tw users by default

Translate.net Main_page does not show right translation for zh-tw users by default

No matter which browser I use, for example, Firefox, Chrome and Opera, Main page of translate.wiki shows zh-hans translations and English strings. Acctually, zh-tw language users should use zh-hant translations instead of zh-hans.

wrong transltaion for zh-tw language

I use Chrome for this screenshot.

For example, I have checked about:config values in Firefox, "general.user.agent" is "zh-TW" and "intl.accept_languages" are "zh-tw, en-us, en". So it does not make sense to use zh-hans, there must be something wrong behind this problem.

After I logged in Translate.net, those strings showed the right translations. However, we should not ask everyone who use zh-TW language to register and log in to have the right translations showed.

right transltaion for zh-tw language after logged in

The problem seems to extend to Wikipedia.

wrong transltaion for zh-tw language
right transltaion for zh-tw language after logged in

Can any technical guy help zh-TW language users to solve this problem? Please help.

Zerng0706:13, 6 August 2011

Nice find. We rarely use translatewiki.net while not logged in and this issue (incorrect accept language mapping) deserves a solution.

Siebrand06:29, 6 August 2011

It's not about being logged in. Using uselang=zh-tw on the main page shows the same effect.

Nike06:43, 6 August 2011

Maybe Translatewiki.net does not detect the language of browsers or it passes wrong translations for zh-tw language?

Zerng0706:55, 6 August 2011
 
 

I would like this problem be fixed as soon as possible to help my language.

Do anyone know that who I should contact for this issue? Please help us to convey this issue to developers if you can. Thanks in advance.

Zerng0710:36, 10 August 2011

I'm still traveling this week, so I don't have time to look at it.

Nike04:32, 11 August 2011

Looks like this behavior has been there for many many years. The message loading sequence doesn't check for fallback translations in mediawiki namespace.

Nike06:24, 24 August 2011

Can/should be fixed? (think so...)

Siebrand09:22, 25 August 2011

It's possible and even reasonable. However we should be prepared expect ugly issues on WMF projects that might rely on the current behavior a tad too much.

Nike09:22, 26 August 2011

Although I'm not technical and not knowing what you mean, I still want to say "Thanks for your investigation!" :)

Zerng0710:59, 27 August 2011
 

Is this issue possibly be fixed within this year? :P

Zerng07 (talk)10:38, 5 March 2012

It is likely. ;)

Nike (talk)13:11, 5 March 2012

What is the matching bug in the bugzilla?

Nike (talk)15:28, 14 July 2012

I don't know, let's continue on bugzilla:38397 to find out.

Nemo (talk)16:12, 14 July 2012