<p>If he's logged in then it should be entirely down to the preferred language in his user profile and if not then to the Accept-Language header his browser sends.</p>
<p>If there is a bug then it's probably that <code>set_locale</code> isn't being called for some reason in which case you tend to get the language of the last user to hit that server. If the response is consistently french then that is unlikely. In any case we would need to know exactly what API endpoint he is hitting.</p>

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