I live in South Africa (hence the southern African region), and I keep seeing common names for species in Afrikaans as well as other languages (even in languages I cannot identify, such as for the African Bush Elephant which I keep seeing as ‘Clou’). As a native English speaker, I would like to set…

Ah: I added it to an existing post and it seems not to be “topical” https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/select-language-for-common-names/5430/11

[image] tonyrebelo: The common name displayed for the species is “Olifant” - this is a bug This is not a bug, it is an intentional design choice to support users and languages into which the site is not translated. For example if common names are entered in Icelandic and that is what the use…

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I am not sure how this makes sense? So Mr/z Afrikaans comes along and sets their site to English with southern African Place names. S/He then comes and adds “Olifant” as Afrikaans name for place southern Africa. All the poor English speaking people using place = 'southern Africa" now see “Olifant…

It’s not a bug, it is doing what it is designed to do, which as I said is to support users who wish/need to see names in languages into which the site is not translated. I agree the overall design in terms of display of names could be improved and simplified. There is a request to allow users to sp…

[image] cmcheatle: I agree the overall design in terms of display of names could be improved and simplified. There is a request to allow users to specify the language they want to se names in but that comes with issues too. For example then every English speaker will see American names as they w…

I’m talking about under the current design. Yes the design should be changed to show the first name that matches both your chosen language and place preference, not simply as it does now. However it should only do this if you have both filled in.

It is a bug, because it does not work. I do not want to see Afrikaans names (or Swedish for that matter), but English names, and if some feature catering for languages which cannot be selected interferes with the display for languages that can be selected it, then it is a bug - either in the sense …

I’m not going to argue the semantics of what is and is not a bug with you, or its definition. There is no situation where English speakers are forced to or can only see Icelandic or Afrikaans names. If anything since you can make the Afrikaans go ‘away’ for everyone by just adding an English name …

That is unfortunate, as there are MANY countries with multilingual people. French and English in Canada. Switzerland has 4 languages. South Africa has many. Since iNat is international it is a real issue for many of us.

Is there a way for me to select English only when my region is set for multiple languages?

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bouteloua June 26, 2020, 4:44pm 9

I don’t think that should be needed.

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Is there a way for me to select English only when my region is set for multiple languages?

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