Platform: App App version number, if a mobile app issue: 1.37.2 (638) It looks like I’m seeing more than one language in the app? Some names are in French and others are in English and it’s really random which ones are which language. I should only be seeing English theoretically. Screenshots of …

see discussion here: https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/common-raccoon-raton-laveur/75745/3 https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/common-names-in-french-instead-of-english/43005

Interesting I’m not having this issue on the website, only the app. Maybe the bug was fixed there and not on the app yet? If it’s a locale thing, maybe Quebec should be treated as it’s own “country” for iNat’s purposes? As those in Canada know, and perhaps many outside don’t, that’s really the only…

I have this issue sometimes, but I see names in languages of other users (identifiers). So if someone here, in Ukraine, uses Russian language to identify species, I see the name in Russian, same with Polish and English. Even if user doesn’t use that language anymore, I still see other languages in o…

I’m wondering if maybe you have a similar issue that we have in Canada where people within the country speak different languages based on what part of the country you’re in? I don’t know Ukraine well enough, but I’m in Canada, and the cause of this bug seems to be that the algorithm gets confused by…

[image] felicia54513: I do get why locale takes priority over language, locales have different names, even if it’s the same language. A good example is cabbage butterflies. In the US, they’re called “garden whites” not cabbage. Yes but if someone is in the US but has their language set to Fre…

Fair point. I’m not sure if does display like this, would have to hear from someone who has.

my understanding is that is exactly whats happening to you right now, it’s why youre seeing “raton laveur” despite your language being set to english

Another general concern I have here is confusion. I didn’t know what a phymate d’amérique was until I went to the website and saw it was a jagged ambush bug. This is just an app issue, and I think with only French and English it’s manageable, but as another user pointed out, there are areas where Ru…

Ya… hence my suggestion of maybe treating Quebec as a region or leaving off French as a locale and only treating it as a language. Someone in Quebec might have their language set to English and 90% of Canada isn’t French, so treating French terms as local terms for Canada doesn’t make a whole lot of…

But wouldn’t it be strictly better to just always first try to match your language, and then match your locale, rather than the other way around as is currently done? This way French-Canadians outside of Quebec (of which there are plenty) still get the French-Canadian names, and Anglo-Canadians in Q…

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felicia54513 February 16, 2026, 3:14pm 16

Based on this whole brainstorming exchange we’ve had, I think the answer is for Canadian French to be its own language. I’ll send that as a feature request.

Topic		Replies	Views
Adjust Common Name Prioritization Feature Requests	0	186	February 17, 2026
Common name in French instead of English Bug Reports	6	195	February 21, 2026
Regional site language settings such as French (Canada) and English (UK) don't affect common name priority within a place like their generic counterparts français and English do Bug Reports	2	398	July 10, 2023
Common names in french instead of english Bug Reports	26	1214	January 3, 2024
Select language for common names Feature Requests implemented	41	6800	November 1, 2023

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