[OpenID] Proposal for OpenID Language Extension

[Allen Tom]

Steven Livingstone-Perez wrote:
> It would be useful to allow this to be passed around, although I agree about
> your thoughts on the browser setting this. It was getting too much of a
> headache to allow the user to come to en.username.domain.org or some of the
> other ways often used to indicate language. 
>   
Hi Steven,

The main rationale behind our proposal is that the RP already has a good 
idea what the user's preferred language is. Perhaps the the RP detects 
the user's Browser settings, or maybe the RP already displayed content 
to the user prior to signingin. In either case, it would seem best to 
not toggle between two different languages during the sign in process, 
and to let the RP pass the OP the language of the referring page.


> So I just default to the browser settings (a problem if I am in a Japanese
> web café!) but let them choose from a list and set a cookie (again I've
> always found this technique a bit odd though as I don’t know what "language"
> looks like in Japanese and I'd guess the same is true for many Japanese
> people! So how do you change your language in this case.... a crazy
> experience a few years back when I screwed up my Hotmail settings taught me
> this). Clearly it would be nice to seamlessly move from replying party to
> the OP. How many times do you want to set your language.
>
>   
Yes, this is exactly one of the use cases where we think that the RP 
should try to tell the OP what language to use.

Thanks
Allen