Thread:Talk:Universal Language Selector/"Common languages"/reply

Thanks for your feedback Zolo,

Common language section includes languages from different sources (each one may also contribute in some circumstances to add not-so common languages):
 * Browser accepted languages. Browsers can be configured with several accepted languages and some of those may be included in the list (not only the main one, French, in your case). So if you have alternative accepted languages they may be there.
 * Previous selected languages. This is helpful for users that usually change between a small set of languages. But if you explore at some point an unusual language just for curiosity it will be there the next time.
 * IP-based geolocation: languages spoken in the user location. The ULS uses CLDR data and geo-location is made at country level at the moment. So if any of the "uncommon" languages you found is due to the previous two reasons, then it is likely due to the precision level (all French languages are not spoken in all parts of France but we do not have zone-specific info), or problems in the region-language info from the CLDR (the repository of information we are using to determine the languages spoken in each region).

In case the problem is related to geo-ip, we'll take a look to the languages that are associated with France to verify if there is some incorrect data.