Language seems to default to en

[emaxmax]

Describe the bug

It seems that the language metadata is always "en", even if the text is not obviously.
I checked that with the API /api/posts/

Steps to reproduce (if necessary)

Steps to reproduce the behavior:

1. Create a post, not in english
2. Check the language with the API
3. Maybe check also the language in the ActivityPub message (don't have debug tools to do it myself)

Expected behavior

If no language is specified by the user, use the "und" value specified in ActivityStreams: https://www.w3.org/TR/activitystreams-core/#naturalLanguageValues
As a new feature: offer the UX to the user to specify the post language, on a post or blog basis.

Application configuration

• Single mode or Multi-user mode? Multi
• Open registration? yes
• Federation enabled? yes

Version or last commit: 0.9.1-104-g541c3a9

[thebaer]

Thanks for looking into this. But the language setting isn't derived from the text. When publishing via the web application, we detect the language from your browser settings and use that to set the language of the post: https://github.com/writeas/writefreely/blob/bb0be02b4f877b4573d91b5b55b2255dcf9dc403/templates/pad.tmpl#L150

Our other official clients do something similar, trying to determine the language from the user's system if possible, and simply passing it on to the API. Of course this isn't perfect, but it solves most cases. If the language isn't correct, a user can always change the post's language via the API, or in the web app:

1. Publish a post
2. Click "edit"
3. Click the small "i" icon near the top right of the editor
4. Select a different language

Let me know if I missed something. But I'll close this for now since it doesn't seem to be a bug.

[emaxmax]

Thanks for the hint.
It's ok for me, but I still think that for average users, a UX during the writing would be better than one after.
But that's your design, I'm fine with the current solution!