Yesterday, I tried the new beta. Install was far better than D5 (thanks for the good work). After install, I imported the arabic translation from D5, and made it the default language (btw rtl support is awesome). Now, changing language from the language switcher doesn't work. If I change the default language from my profile, the language switcher works again.
I don't know if this is related with http://drupal.org/node/146084

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abderrahim’s picture

abderrahim commented
Title: user » user configured locale is used in place of english

Sorry, I forgot to complete the title

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gábor hojtsy
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You see language swicther links in the block, but clicking on them does not work? Can you copy here the link targets of the links in the block? ie. http://example.com/en/node/1 etc.

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abderrahim commented

from the main page, arabic links to ?q=ar/node and english links to ?q=node but both show the arabic version. (arabic is configured as the default language)

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gábor hojtsy
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Status: Active » Postponed (maintainer needs more info)

Let's think through what you are doing. If you have "Path prefix with language fallback. If a suitable path prefix is not identified, language is based on user preferences and browser language settings." mode used, when you don't have a path prefix, the language is identified by your user setting or browser setting or you don't have a user preference. Do you have this mode selected? In this case, what you observe seems to be normal behavior.

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abderrahim commented
Status: Postponed (maintainer needs more info) » Active

Yes, this mode is selected.
So the bug is that english doesn't actually have a prefix. I guess this bug can be closed as a duplicate of http://drupal.org/node/146084 with adding this comment.

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gábor hojtsy
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Status: Active » Closed (works as designed)

Well, this is not a bug then to be more precise :) You selected the mode where the language was discovered based on user settings and in your case, the same language was selected. Actually, a nice improvement would be to redirect to the language specific path in this case, but then again, if you don't have a language specific path prefix/domain set, we cannot redirect. Requirements for different language modes clash here. Anyway, I'll reconsider #146084 thanks.

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greggles
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@abderrahim - does the patch I provided in 146084 fix the problem for you?

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abderrahim commented

Yes, but I had to reinstall ( I think this is normal since the modification is in the .install file)

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hovel commented
Title: user configured locale is used in place of english » Language selection conflict
Version: 6.0-beta4 » 6.6

Language selection conflict cause by English not having a language path prefix.
Occurs in multilingual, non default English, websites.

Implied default: When no path prefix is given (eg: my.website.org) then English is the default.

In the following situations there is a conflict which makes that it is not possible
to select or switch to English, neighter by the language switching block nor by
using a path prefix because English does not have a path prefix.

1: A language different from English is set as default.

2: Language negotiation setting "Path prefix only" is set.

3: Language negotiation setting "Path prefix with language fallback" is set.

In my opinion it is not a question of if but when it gets implemented!