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   Megalodon (megalodon@floss.social)'s status on Friday, 17-Mar-2023 03:24:35 JST Megalodon

   Does anyone know a way to query the logged-in account's locale using the Mastodon API? From what I can tell, I need this to determine whether to show the Translate button or not.

   #MastoDev #Mastodon

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     Fedilab Apps (apps@toot.fedilab.app)'s status on Friday, 17-Mar-2023 03:24:34 JST Fedilab Apps

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     @megalodon
     You can also use the device locale.

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     Fedilab Apps (apps@toot.fedilab.app)'s status on Friday, 17-Mar-2023 03:31:25 JST Fedilab Apps

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     @megalodon
     Otherwise you can get it here.
     https://docs.joinmastodon.org/methods/accounts/#verify_credentials

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     Fedilab Apps (apps@toot.fedilab.app)'s status on Friday, 17-Mar-2023 03:51:15 JST Fedilab Apps

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     @megalodon
     In source object attached to account reply. There is language inside.

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     Megalodon (megalodon@floss.social)'s status on Friday, 17-Mar-2023 03:51:16 JST Megalodon

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     • Fedilab Apps

     @apps Thanks! But uhm, where? The `accounts/verify_credentials` method doesn't have locale information anywhere from what I can tell :/

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     Fedilab Apps (apps@toot.fedilab.app)'s status on Friday, 17-Mar-2023 03:56:56 JST Fedilab Apps

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     @megalodon
     We use device locale for displaying or not this icon.

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     Megalodon (megalodon@floss.social)'s status on Friday, 17-Mar-2023 03:56:57 JST Megalodon

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     • Fedilab Apps

     @apps Would do that as a last resort, but I can never be sure that it's the correct one and that translation will work… Kind of a shame the translation endpoint doesn't take a target language parameter

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     Fedilab Apps (apps@toot.fedilab.app)'s status on Friday, 17-Mar-2023 04:02:01 JST Fedilab Apps

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     @megalodon
     LibreTranslate supports auto detect language. So it is only for displaying the button.

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     Fedilab Apps (apps@toot.fedilab.app)'s status on Friday, 17-Mar-2023 04:05:36 JST Fedilab Apps

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     @megalodon also we use our own server https://translate.fedilab.app so it is not limited to instances that support translations.
     You can of course use it for your app.

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     Fedilab Apps (apps@toot.fedilab.app)'s status on Friday, 17-Mar-2023 04:08:48 JST Fedilab Apps

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     • Kim Sudenlehto

     @kepic @megalodon
     By default, the app can't guess that.
     On our end, users can set different targeted languages. When clicking the translate button it asks which language if several.

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     Kim Sudenlehto (kepic@mk.nixnet.social)'s status on Friday, 17-Mar-2023 04:08:55 JST Kim Sudenlehto

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     @apps@toot.fedilab.app @megalodon@floss.social
     I hold everburning hatred toward anyone using locale as replacement for language. I want text to be in English, even if my locale is Finland. Why the heck is it so difficult to understand and implement this?

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     Fedilab Apps (apps@toot.fedilab.app)'s status on Friday, 17-Mar-2023 04:19:49 JST Fedilab Apps

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     @megalodon
     Yes but from the api endpoint, you can get what languages an account uses for posting.
     If a message does not target these languages, the app displays a translate button.

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     Megalodon (megalodon@floss.social)'s status on Friday, 17-Mar-2023 04:19:51 JST Megalodon

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     • Fedilab Apps

     @apps If I do that, I could still have cases like this:

     * My Mastodon account is set to English
     * My phone could be set to German
     * Megalodon would display a translate button for English posts, but not for German posts
     * Mastodon would try to translate English posts to English

     …all because I display the translate button for the wrong language. I think I might actually go for the HTML scraping approach to get the right language ?

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     Fedilab Apps (apps@toot.fedilab.app)'s status on Friday, 17-Mar-2023 05:01:35 JST Fedilab Apps

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     • Kim Sudenlehto

     @kepic @megalodon
     Yes the app uses the checked one. We will check if it is possible to retrieve installed languages.

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     Kim Sudenlehto (kepic@mk.nixnet.social)'s status on Friday, 17-Mar-2023 05:01:37 JST Kim Sudenlehto

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     @megalodon@floss.social @apps@toot.fedilab.app
     
     I suppose that's possible. Here's what I mean:

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     Megalodon (megalodon@floss.social)'s status on Friday, 17-Mar-2023 05:01:38 JST Megalodon

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     • Kim Sudenlehto

     @kepic @apps I'm pretty sure @apps means the system-wide language rather than the actual, literal locale?

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     Kim Sudenlehto (kepic@mk.nixnet.social)'s status on Friday, 17-Mar-2023 05:01:39 JST Kim Sudenlehto

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     • Fedilab Apps

     @apps@toot.fedilab.app @megalodon@floss.social
     And why not? I'm fairly sure setting region and language separately in Android settings is possible, as I have done so.