Two different downloads of the same checklist for the area done from the same computer minutes apart give the Taxon Common Name in different languages, neither of them English, which is what my computer, browser, iNat interface, and Excel are set to.
Are you saying you duplicated it, or are you asking me to duplicate it?
If it’s the latter, I already did before posting the bug report. That’s why there are two screenshots. The first was of the initial bug (downloading in a random language that is not any of the languages any of my settings have enabled), and the second is when I duplicated the results and got a second and completely different random language.
EDIT:
Just tried it a third time on a different computer now that I’m home after work.
Same results (random non-English names/text in the Taxon Common Name column):
By creating this forum thread you duplicated it. But I found out it workes fine for small checklists but it does not work for checklists wiht e.g. over 2,000 items. Your list has 2,939 items. But you are right and is it a bug and not a feature reqest… I have the same results in Spanish, German, Italian and unreadable stuff, but it does not occur with small checklists.
You can also see that when the progress bar is in English when generating the file and not in the selected language of the GUI your checklist will not have correct common names.
I reproduced it three times over the course of several days, all getting similar results.
Today this checklist appears to have downloaded with the correct common names, barring a couple of small mistakes but…
This checklist is having the same random language and nonsense character issues as previously. Different language from the ones it was jumping to last time.
@ti wane: It means you are not able to reproduce it? You did change your locale to something else then english and your checklist has over 2.000 items?
It goes always wrong if I see this screen (always in the wrong languague) and if I do not see this screen it always goes perfect:
It always goes wrong if a checklist has over 2.000 items and your locale is not english and always goes well if the checklist has less then 800 items. I should expect that processing is changing to the background when the list has many items?
Ofcourse for Tiwane. You simply can’t miss this bug so I do not understand why he needs a CSV. If the checklist is long enough you get the common names in English (or something different).
Hmm… so does that means that I’ll have to use a VPN to trick iNat into thinking I’m in an English speaking region if I want English common names?
Where I am there are quite a few species that either don’t have a common name in the language of the country, or the common name used in the country isn’t recorded. I don’t think that’s unusual in many places around the world.
