Brutkey

Fedi.Tips
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p.s. For anyone wondering what the post language setting is even for, it allows people to easily filter out posts in languages they don't speak, and also provides a "translate" button below your post if people don't speak your language.

However, this system relies on people using the correct language settings for their posts, so that the system knows which language each post uses.

You can find out more about language settings on Mastodon in the guide at https://fedi.tips/setting-your-language-preferences-on-mastodon-and-filtering-out-posts-in-other-languages

Fedi.Tips
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p.p.s. Using the correct post language setting is also important for accessibility:

The language setting of a post determines how a screen reader pronounces it when read out loud.

If you have the wrong language setting on your post, this can make it difficult for blind and visually impaired people to understand it because their screen reader software may not prounce it correctly.

Thank you very much to @elettrona@poliversity.it for pointing out this issue!

danimrich
@danimrich@mastodon.social

@FediTips@social.growyourown.services However, don't expect Mastodon's OCR feature to use this setting. Even though the OCR library is available in many different languages, Mastodon always assumes that the text in an image is in English and will happily produce a load of crap if you tell it to recognize (for example, German) text in an image.

Sérac
@serac@troet.cafe

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Seems like this feature only works if you publish everything in the same language. There is no apparent way to define a language for every posting individually (where the auto detect would become really handy).

Fedi.Tips
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@serac@troet.cafe

There is, if you're using the web interface or an app that supports selecting the language.

For example the official iPhone app has a button at the bottom of the post with the language code on it, you can click this to change the language just for that post.

Fedi.Tips
@FediTips@social.growyourown.services

@serac@troet.cafe

There is, if you're using the web interface or an app that supports selecting the language.

For example the official iPhone app has a button at the bottom of the post with the language code on it, you can click this to change the language just for that post.