[openstreetmap/openstreetmap-website] Add a locale selector (PR #3618)

[Roman Deev]

> Yes we are perfectly well aware that's a requested feature, but not one that is something we as authors of this repository can do anything about as we do not provide the map tiles.

You understand, I understand. But the user, as in issue, will most likely expect something else.

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How about using the differences of the user's country (for example, by GeoIP) and browser headers for the trigger of showing language switching?

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> when they have their browser set up to request pages in English. 🤷

>From post:  _At first, for some reason, he is greeted by a page in English. <b>Well, maybe the problem is in the browser.</b> But why can’t I switch the language on the page?_

> the OP complains loudly

You say it like it was the whole post.

The lack of language switching was just a small thing that complicated the registration. There is quite a lot of text in the registration form and it is unpleasant to read it in a foreign language https://github.com/openstreetmap/openstreetmap-website/issues/2287#issuecomment-1193315720 (But there is also a Help section and everything will be in a foreign language there too...)

And if you carefully re-read the post, you can understand that the situation arose in the built-in StreetComplete browser, which does not have any settings.

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