Reported by Pepo on 12 Apr 41039882 22:13 UTC
On any BOINC project forum pages, when user '''A''' is sending a private message (PM) to user '''B''', the notification email is written in the language, which is set as user '''A''''s preference, instead of user '''B''''s preferred (and understandable) language.
Currently it is just the e-mail subject, which gets translated. But if you imagine two users, which preferences are set to e.g. Slovak and Japanese, (and if the notification e-mails' contents would be thoroughly translated too,) both users would be actually getting some ''garbage'' e-mail they are not able to read and understand, except maybe the private message text itself, written in a language they both understand and agreed to use for communication.
I believe that this notification e-mail should be translated into the recipient's language instead of the sender's one. And if the PM is being addressed to multiple recipients, then each one correspondingly. Maybe with a fall-back to a particular (project-preferred) default language, e.g. now it is English.
(Response from davea: "This would require adding a field to a DB table (probably forum_preferences) to store the language list passed in the last web access.")
PS: Forum posts' notification e-mails could possibly also be sent using user's preferred language.
Migrated-From: http://boinc.berkeley.edu/trac/ticket/1038
Reported by Pepo on 12 Apr 41039882 22:13 UTC
On any BOINC project forum pages, when user '''A''' is sending a private message (PM) to user '''B''', the notification email is written in the language, which is set as user '''A''''s preference, instead of user '''B''''s preferred (and understandable) language.
Currently it is just the e-mail subject, which gets translated. But if you imagine two users, which preferences are set to e.g. Slovak and Japanese, (and if the notification e-mails' contents would be thoroughly translated too,) both users would be actually getting some ''garbage'' e-mail they are not able to read and understand, except maybe the private message text itself, written in a language they both understand and agreed to use for communication.
I believe that this notification e-mail should be translated into the recipient's language instead of the sender's one. And if the PM is being addressed to multiple recipients, then each one correspondingly. Maybe with a fall-back to a particular (project-preferred) default language, e.g. now it is English.
(Response from davea: "This would require adding a field to a DB table (probably forum_preferences) to store the language list passed in the last web access.")
PS: Forum posts' notification e-mails could possibly also be sent using user's preferred language.
Migrated-From: http://boinc.berkeley.edu/trac/ticket/1038