http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10270
Summary: Wine gecko does not send HTTP Accept-Language header Product: Wine Version: CVS/GIT Platform: PC OS/Version: Linux Status: NEW Severity: minor Priority: P2 Component: wine-programs AssignedTo: wine-bugs@winehq.org ReportedBy: thestig@google.com
Wine gecko does not send the HTTP Accept-Language header for HTTP requests. This means for wine iexplore users, going to website that look for that header, i.e. http://www.google.com/, will always return webpages in the web server's default language choice rather than in the user's preferred language.
To see what headers a web browser is sending, go to: http://schroepl.net/cgi-bin/http_trace.pl
Internet Explorer will send the string in HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Internals\AcceptLanguage as the Accept-Language header.
With a clean .wine directory + gecko, Wine iexplore does not send anything.
I can change what Wine iexplore sends by adding:
user_pref("intl.accept_languages", "foo");
to prefs.js or user.js in ~/.wine/drive_c/windows/profiles/username/Application Data/Mozilla/Profiles/MSHTML/hash/.
The ideal behavior would be: Wine iexplore should look in the same registry key as IE, and that registry key should be properly initialized by wineprefixcreate.