<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/1231218?s=20&v=4" /><strong>1ec5</strong> created an issue <a href="https://github.com/openstreetmap/openstreetmap-website/issues/6527">(openstreetmap/openstreetmap-website#6527)</a></div>
<p dir="auto">The <code class="notranslate">search</code> and <code class="notranslate">description</code> meta tags on the homepage are hard-coded in English:</p>
<p dir="auto"><a href="https://github.com/openstreetmap/openstreetmap-website/blob/052f0bc356806c56d3b5779c97ede17c40909a5b/app/views/layouts/_meta.html.erb#L23-L24">https://github.com/openstreetmap/openstreetmap-website/blob/052f0bc356806c56d3b5779c97ede17c40909a5b/app/views/layouts/_meta.html.erb#L23-L24</a></p>
<p dir="auto">This results in browsers like Firefox associating the OpenSearch description file with an English title:</p>
<a href="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/0e20fb7d-0cf7-44d7-b0c0-bfd7c1f1f9b5">nh.man.hinh.2025-11-14.luc.10.03.34.png (view on web)</a>
<p dir="auto">Sometimes search engines like Google turn up URLs that are explicitly non-English, such as with the <code class="notranslate">?locale=</code> parameter set, but still have the description in English:</p>
<p dir="auto"><a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.openstreetmap.org%2F%3Flocale%3Des&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&hl=es" rel="nofollow"><a href="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/90ad37ed-b87f-4d63-aac3-3c485ffde941">Captura.el.2025-11-14.a.las.10.08.30.png (view on web)</a></a></p>

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