Implement Persistent Language Selection for User Convenience

[janvanveldhuizen]

Context

I have a website in three languages, where English is the default.
When users prefer a different language, they have to switch to that language each time they return to the website.

Description

I'd like the language selector follow this pattern:

• select the language that was selected when the user closed the website (possibly using localStorage?)
• (optionally) if that selection is not available, select the language from the browser settings language
• if that is not available, use the default language

Related links

• Requesting a change
• Example of such an implementation in a Hugo environment: https://papasmurf.nl/en/blog/hugo_language/

Use Cases

When a Dutch user goes to my website, and he doesn't understand English very well, then it is annoying that he has to switch to Dutch each time he comes back to the website.

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