Website in Spanish (or other languages)

I don't know if everyone else is having this problem, but when I load lds.org in firefox, I got to the HTTPS version and it takes me to the spanish page. However, when I do it in IE, I go to the correct language.

Weird.

harddrive wrote:I don't know if everyone else is having this problem, but when I load lds.org in firefox, I got to the HTTPS version and it takes me to the spanish page. However, when I do it in IE, I go to the correct language.

Weird.

Yes, I have had Spanish pages pop up quite regularly today courtesy of lds.org. It seems that the old weirdness has returned again. FF 12.0.

If I edit the URL changing spa to eng and reload, I am back in familiar territory again.

I have also been having occasional experiences with LDSl.org changing to Spanish over the past two days. I have not done any detailed investigation into the parameters in which this happens. I am using Firfox 21.0.

A couple of days ago I went into the "Newsletter" section of lds.org and experienced the same thing - pages in Spanish. I didn't see any portion of the URL that indicated a language, so I added my own to get back to English. Definitely weird. I was using FF v21. Also, I have FF configured to clear the browser pages when the browser is closed.

It's been months since this has happened to me, so something was recently updated on lds.org to bring this about - again.

I'm running Firefox 21 as well. So somethings up. It is just annoying and I'm slowly learning spanish .

lajackson wrote:If I edit the URL changing spa to eng and reload, I am back in familiar territory again.

techgy wrote:I didn't see any portion of the URL that indicated a language, so I added my own to get back to English.

Although adjusting the URL to have "lang=eng" will work, it's often simpler to just click on the language selector in the header (the one with the globe icon) and pick English.

And I am experiencing the same issue with Spanish -- even after clearing my cookies and cache, if I open a new browser window/tab and go to LDS.org, it is in Spanish. This only happens to me in Firefox -- IE and Chrome have no such issue.

aebrown wrote:Although adjusting the URL to have "lang=eng" will work, it's often simpler to just click on the language selector in the header (the one with the globe icon) and pick English.

True. But changing the URL has always worked for me. Changing the language selector has not always provided the selected language, and in my most recent case, the language globe was hidden under the Church Websites drop down box and was not available to select.

I've played around with this trying to find something I could include in my feedback through the LDS.org feedback link. This is what I found.

My language is English. I get the LDS.org home page in Spanish some times. The method in which I arrive at the LDS.org page determines whether the language is in English or in Spanish.

When navigating to LDS.org using the regular URL "http://www.lds.org/" results in the page coming up in English. However, when using the secure URL "https://www.lds.org/" the page comes up in Spanish. Of course I must be signed into another Church site using the LDS Account single sign-in before navigating to LDS.org for the secure URL to function.

The problem appears to be in the redirection of the secure URL to the complete page URL with the language appended. Clearing the browser cache and cookies has no affect on the results.

I check the results in the browsers IE8, IE10, Chrome, and Firefox. Firefox was the only one that had the language problem.

So my results are the same as aebrown's.

Yes, and I'll add a reference to my post from yesterday. I'm finding different browsers default differently with just "lds.org" in the URL.

I had a problem with the calendar and directory flipping to Spanish using Chrome a few days ago.

Yeah, I see that too. Anytime you go somewhere with a https and no "?lang=" tag. That means the going from the main page to another area will trigger it as the "lang" extension is not passed along. Most links don't pass that.

Hopefully this helps to clarify the problem. (Forgive me if I'm stepping into a duplicate thread or a known issue.) If I request the following URL:

https://www.lds.org/

The server sends a 301 redirect to this URL:

https://www.lds.org/?lang=spa

This behavior is happening regardless of whether my client sends English language headers as part of the request. To eliminate cookies, sessions, client-side headers, and cache, here is the test that I'm running (you should be able to replicate this problem):

$ curl -I https://www.lds.org/
HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently
Location: https://www.lds.org/?lang=spa
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
Content-Length: 0
Date: Sat, 22 Jun 2013 06:23:42 GMT
Connection: keep-alive

This does NOT happen when using http. Only https seems to be configured this way.

I don't believe this can be a client-side issue. Also, because this does not happen when not in SSL mode, it sounds like a configuration problem on the server (or reverse proxy, load balancer, CDN, whatever). It would seem that if no cookie, session data, or geolocation were available to determine otherwise, that you should honor the language passed in by the client. Please let me know if I can help clarify in any way.

This bug hits me periodically because I use Firefox to browse normally, which is notorious for honoring a 301 permanently (after all, that's what a 301 is supposed to be).

Thanks,
Jared

In the past few days, I have gotten Spanish, Portugese, and Mandarin. Tis is showing up on Firefox, Chrome, and my iPad. I checked and my default should be English. Glad I'm not alone.

comes up spanish at home for me (southern CA). also, the broadcast from the Marriott Center came up in Spanish in our church building today. took the brethren a moment to fix. Everyone in the congregation was trying to tell him how to do it.

The Spanish problem seems to be getting worse. Tonight I'm on a different computer than usual. I started out in English, then went to something else, and when I came back, the page was in Spanish. I can't even change the language to English! After changing the language to English, it removed me from the page where I was and took me to this URL, which I find quite amusing:

https://www.lds.org/languages/eng?lang=spa

It's like the URL says my language for English is Spanish?!? I get a page in English with Spanish headers and footers. I did this in multiple browsers tonight.

I think I finally got my English to stick my modifying the URL.
*EDIT* No I didn't get it to stick. I've been changing the language a few times. It seems the default (without "?lang=eng") is Spanish.

THis is the CHurch's new way to get missionaries ready to serve without all of the language training! If you are bombarded with multiple languages all the time, you learn them faster.

I have noticed this same issue on Firefox and Chrome. I have the HTTPS Everywhere Add-On installed on both of these browsers which forces the browser to load the HTTPS version of every site. When I turn the add-on off, the site does not load in Spanish.

Tonight the site wants to default to Chinese for me. That's a new one for me. I know some other people have seen Chinese. Until now, all I've ever seen was Spanish or Portuguese (oh, I think I've seen this language called English show up every once-in-a-while, too ).

On my Debian Jessie computer, I have tested it in Opera 12.15, Konqueror 4.8.4, Chromium 27, Chrome 28, and Firefox/Iceweasel 20.0. I tried explicitly setting both https and http with just www.lds.org as the address. My test results are:

When entering "http://www.lds.org", ALL browsers, including Firefox, defaulted to English.

When entering "https://www.lds.org", all browsers EXCEPT Firefox defaulted to English. Firefox defaulted to Spanish. Firefox, by default, is set to get https pages if they exist, so entering lds.org in Firefox's location bar will automatically default to the https version which is coming up in a foreign language.

Now, if this is what is happening with all clients that are getting the other language pages, then it is left to find what is different about the https defaults on these browsers that is bringing up the other language instead. Sorry, I don't have an Android or iOS device to test. I'll leave that up to others.

I keep loading the church website, lds.org, in Spanish, but I want it in English. Is there something wrong with Firefox?

[Moderator note: I moved this post from last year's topic Language problem to a more current discussion for this issue.]

Mormon85Vinny wrote:I keep loading the church website, lds.org, in Spanish, but I want it in English.

Yes, as you can see from other posts in this topic, others are experiencing this problem, too.

Mormon85Vinny wrote:Is there something wrong with Firefox?

It's a combination of factors. There's clearly something wrong on the LDS.org servers, but this problem manifests itself only in Firefox because Firefox strictly follows some of the HTTP standards, whereas some of the other browsers are a bit more relaxed in this area.

This problem appears to have been corrected. I have not had a language problem for several days.

It just happened to me again. Very annoying.

I no longer have the behavior after updating to Firefox 23 on 64-bit Linux.

This bug report says that one of the big causes of this issue should be fixed in all versions of Firefox 23 (currently in beta).

shoalcreek5 wrote:I no longer have the behavior after updating to Firefox 23 on 64-bit Linux.

This bug report says that one of the big causes of this issue should be fixed in all versions of Firefox 23 (currently in beta).

Thanks for the link. However, I don't think this particular Firefox issue has much if anything to do with the LDS.org language issue. That issue affected people using all browsers.

aebrown wrote:Thanks for the link. However, I don't think this particular Firefox issue has much if anything to do with the LDS.org language issue. That issue affected people using all browsers.

That's funny, because your very last post before this one, you indicated that ONLY Firefox seemed to be effected by this issue. Specifically:

aebrown wrote:It's a combination of factors. There's clearly something wrong on the LDS.org servers, but this problem manifests itself only in Firefox because Firefox strictly follows some of the HTTP standards, whereas some of the other browsers are a bit more relaxed in this area.

Furthermore, many people only had issues with the language when they were loading only the https version of the website and not the http version.

shoalcreek5 wrote:

aebrown wrote:Thanks for the link. However, I don't think this particular Firefox issue has much if anything to do with the LDS.org language issue. That issue affected people using all browsers.

That's funny, because your very last post before this one, you indicated that ONLY Firefox seemed to be effected by this issue. Specifically:

aebrown wrote:It's a combination of factors. There's clearly something wrong on the LDS.org servers, but this problem manifests itself only in Firefox because Firefox strictly follows some of the HTTP standards, whereas some of the other browsers are a bit more relaxed in this area.

Furthermore, many people only had issues with the language when they were loading only the https version of the website and not the http version.

I'm not sure what I was thinking earlier when I said it affected only Firefox. That's clearly not the case.

If you review this entire topic, you'll see that this problem does indeed affect multiple browsers. There's also the fact that the problem has popped up at various times and then has gone away for all browsers at the same time. That makes it pretty clear that it is a problem with LDS.org (or at least a problem that can be fixed by LDS.org) and not an issue with a particular browser. However, it is conceivable that a particular browser could be written in such a way as to not have this problem.

Having same problems October 23 2013

I'm using Chrome version 30.0.1599.101 m
IE has some problem too

I've cleared out all my cookies and cache using ccleaner. The main site is in English but when I go to newsletter or calendar it goes to Spanish automatically. Any ideas?

This is still a problem. Any updates on if the fix has been implemented and I just didn't get it?

I have a very specific issue with the website in the LCR I get dates only dates showing in Spanish but everything else is in English and only on my desktop. Does anyone else have this issue?

bfshelledy wrote: Sun Jul 24, 2022 3:39 pm I have a very specific issue with the website in the LCR I get dates only dates showing in Spanish but everything else is in English and only on my desktop. Does anyone else have this issue?

That sounds oddly similar to the issue being discussed in this thread:

https://tech.churchofjesuschrist.org/fo ... hp?t=40932