Last modified: 2013-04-22 16:14:41 UTC
Donating through PayPal from the Hebrew landing page opens an English PayPal form. It should open a Hebrew form, if it's possible. PayPal is localized to Hebrew. My browser has Hebrew as Accept-Language, but I am still getting the English form at paypal.com. If it's possible to construct the URL in a way that would immediately bring the Hebrew form, it would make more sense.
Confirmed. Thanks for spotting this... It looks like we're not passing the language to PayPal at all!
We need a list of languages supported by x.com, which is not easy to find. We can do a fallback algorithm to choose the least common language. Frequent PayPal users will have a cookie that specifies the language of all pages after the first (according to docs).
From a (very little) bit of testing that I did, you can choose a country at the top of paypal.com home page. After choosing a country, a list of languages that area available for that country is loaded. As far as I know, Wikimedia Fundraising is meticulously targeted to countries. You can check it country by country, I guess. Choosing the least common language is probably not a great strategy. I suspect that for a lot of countries that may be Chinese; it's weird, but it appears that Paypal offers Chinese for a lot of completely unrelated countries.
Another comment is that PayPal doesn't actually support a lot languages. In fact, I am surprised that it supports Hebrew, but not Arabic.
https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/57456/
https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/57456 (Gerrit Change I6afd7f57c6c2e7f7d26c18804c5eef13804404ef) | change APPROVED and MERGED [by Mwalker]
mwalker / Amir: Patch got merged, is there anything else to do here or can this ticket be closed?
Hebrew works well now.
