<div style="display: flex; flex-wrap: wrap; white-space: pre-wrap; align-items: center; "><img height="20" width="20" style="border-radius:50%; margin-right: 4px;" decoding="async" src="https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/1447941?s=20&v=4" /><strong>lonvia</strong> created an issue <a href="https://github.com/openstreetmap/openstreetmap-website/issues/6420">(openstreetmap/openstreetmap-website#6420)</a></div>
<h3 dir="auto">Problem</h3>
<p dir="auto">When searching for a place, the website currently forwards the language preferences from the browser to Nominatim, which then returns a result which is localised according to these preferences. This seems to confuse users when they have some rather exotic fallbacks in their preferences. I had <a href="https://github.com/osm-search/Nominatim/issues/3845" data-hovercard-type="issue" data-hovercard-url="/osm-search/Nominatim/issues/3845/hovercard">two</a> <a href="https://github.com/osm-search/Nominatim/issues/3843" data-hovercard-type="issue" data-hovercard-url="/osm-search/Nominatim/issues/3843/hovercard">complaints</a> about Japanese in results within a week.</p>
<h3 dir="auto">Description</h3>
<p dir="auto">When the user is logged in, then it would be more consistent to just send the configured language to Nominatim.</p>
<h3 dir="auto">Screenshots</h3>
<p dir="auto"><em>No response</em></p>

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