FAQ - How do I change the default language?
How do I change the default language?
Visitors
You cannot control the language used when visitors first arrive at your site.
Each visitor will see the language that they have chosen in their browser preferences.
To see the language preferences that your browser is sending, visit:
Control panel -> Server information -> PHP Variables
You will see an entry for $_SERVER['HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE'].
This entry contains a list of language codes and priority settings.
webtrees applies additional logic to match this request to the available languages.
Your visitor may request a language that is not available, such as de-CH (Swiss German).
Here, webtrees will match a similar language, such as de (standard German).
Members
If a user is logged-in to your site, webtrees will remember their preferred language, and will select it next time they log in.
Search engines
Each tree has a configuration option “Language”.
This language is used for visitors who do not specify a language. In practice, this applies only to search engines.