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Wrong Language on some Featured Games Pages on Google Stadia Website in Belgium

SpiralMind — Thu, 03 Dec 2020 11:19:38 GMT

Problem/Bug:
On the Google Stadia Website (stadia.google.com), in the Games tab, when opening the 5 pages in the Featured Games section, some will be displayed in English (Humankind, Pac-Man Mega Tunnel Battle, and Baldur's Gate) and some will be displayed in French (Cyberpunk 2077, and Immortals Fenyx Rising).

Expected:
All 5 pages should open in the same language, preferably English.

Possible Cause:
The website correctly identifies I'm browsing from Belgium and wrongfully decides to display pages in French for the pages it has available in French?

My Specifications:
All my settings in my Google Account and in my Windows 10 are set to:
- English primary (as that is the language I use for anything related to computers, internet, entertainment, games, music, movies,...)
- Dutch (Nederlands) secondary (as it happens to be my native language).
My keyboard-layout is set to Belgian Period.
My country/region is set to Belgium.

Info on the languages used in Belgium:
Demographics / People in Belgium speak:
- Dutch / Flemish (Nederlands / Vlaams) (1st: 55%, 2nd: 16%), the official language in the Flanders region.
- French / Walloon (Français / Wallon) (1st: 39%, 2nd: 49%), the official language in the Wallonia region.
- German (Deutsch) (1st: 0.4%, 2nd: 22%), the official language in the Eupen-Malmedy region.
- English, known by most Belgians (>53%) as a secondary unofficial language.
- other foreign unofficial languages: Spanish (5%), Italian (2%), Arabic (3%), Turkish (1%),...
About English in Belgium:
Belgians very frequently come into contact with all sorts of English media and entertainment.
English is often used by Belgians to communicate with foreigners and it's even sometimes used between people of the different regions of Belgium. (Although officially Belgians should be able to speak the language of the region in Belgium they visit)
Belgians are proud of their language(s), but they don't mind using English.
Quite some prefer to use English on the web.
Many prefer to enjoy English media and entertainment in its original language, with some preferring English subtitles and some preferring translated subtitles.

Re: Wrong Language on some Featured Games Pages on Google Stadia Website in Belgium

Chufu — Thu, 03 Dec 2020 16:55:09 GMT

Hey @SpiralMind,

sorry to hear that you get different languages on stadia.google.com. Usually Stadia works the same like other Google products, so the language is based on your Google account.

You've mentioned you've checked your Google account already, but can you try out these two things:

Set "English" to another language, save, then set English again. How to do so, you can find here.
Clear your browser's cache & cookies and then try setting the language again.

Hope this helps, but let us know if you still encounter issues.

Re: Wrong Language on some Featured Games Pages on Google Stadia Website in Belgium

SpiralMind — Fri, 04 Dec 2020 10:49:35 GMT

Extra Tests:
- I opened the 5 pages in a different browser (MicroSoft Edge) and once again I get the same 3 pages in English (Humankind, Pac-Man Mega Tunnel Battle, and Baldur's Gate) and the same 2 pages in French (Cyberpunk 2077, and Immortals Fenyx Rising).
- I opened the 5 pages on a smartphone and once again I get the same 3 pages in English (Humankind, Pac-Man Mega Tunnel Battle, and Baldur's Gate) and the same 2 pages in French (Cyberpunk 2077, and Immortals Fenyx Rising).
- I opened the 5 pages on a different computer with a different OS in a different browser not signed in into any account and once again I get the same 3 pages in English (Humankind, Pac-Man Mega Tunnel Battle, and Baldur's Gate) and the same 2 pages in French (Cyberpunk 2077, and Immortals Fenyx Rising).

I think we can conclude the problem/bug is not related to devices, browsers or settings, but instead might have to do with the coding in the google stadia website code deciding what language to display its pages in if available.

So I inspected the page source and the frame source and I found on the French pages:
<c-wiz jsrenderer="zCvVmb" jsshadow="" jsdata="deferred-i1" data-p="%.@."immortals-fenyx-rising",[null,null,null,"https://www.gstatic.com/stadia/gamers/landing_pages/cobranded/1f2aeed4d6704c4/index.html?hl\u003den\u0026gl\u003dBE"],"Immortals Fenyx Rising","https://stadia.google.com/game/immortals-fenyx-rising?hl\u003den"]" data-node-index="0;0" jsmodel="hc6Ubd" view=""><div class="uYQENc" jscontroller="bk8qRd" jsaction="rcuQ6b:npT2md;"><iframe class="qa6qQc" frameborder="0" src="https://www.gstatic.com/stadia/gamers/landing_pages/cobranded/1f2aeed4d6704c4/index.html?hl=en&gl=BE" sandbox="allow-top-navigation-by-user-activation allow-scripts allow-same-origin"></iframe></div><c-data id="i1"></c-data></c-wiz>
<div class="uYQENc" jscontroller="bk8qRd" jsaction="rcuQ6b:npT2md;"><iframe class="qa6qQc" frameborder="0" src="https://www.gstatic.com/stadia/gamers/landing_pages/cobranded/1f2aeed4d6704c4/index.html?hl=en&gl=BE" sandbox="allow-top-navigation-by-user-activation allow-scripts allow-same-origin"></iframe></div>
<iframe class="qa6qQc" frameborder="0" src="https://www.gstatic.com/stadia/gamers/landing_pages/cobranded/1f2aeed4d6704c4/index.html?hl=en&gl=BE" sandbox="allow-top-navigation-by-user-activation allow-scripts allow-same-origin"></iframe>
<html lang="fr-BE" class=" qwisjiekb idc8_326"><head><meta charset="utf-8">

Seems like this is the culprit.
But why does it choose fr-BE instead of nl-BE or en-BE or just en-US?
I can't find out.

On English pages the code is:
<c-wiz jsrenderer="h3G3i" jsshadow="" jsdata="deferred-i1" data-p="%.@."humankind",null,"BE"]" jsname="bN97Pc" data-node-index="0;0" jsmodel="hc6Ubd" view="">...