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Status: Untriaged
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OS: Android
Pri: 2
Type: Feature



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Incorrect translation for the "Desktop site" option to Russian

Reported by nekr.fab...@gmail.com, Nov 5

Issue description

On Russian translation, Chrome's option to request a desktop site ("Desktop site") is translated as "Full version" ("Полная версия"). Which has different meaning from the original naming. The "Full version" line implies that the currently viewed version is somehow stripped down or being "not a full version". Even if in some cases it is true, it isn't the dominant case this days. Especially with PWAs and reach experience on the mobile web.

We have seen a situation in the wild that people always check "Full version" checkbox, because they want the full version of the website, not a stripped down version.

This leads to several situations:

1) When desktop site is a different site, users always use this option and always use the desktop site instead of the mobile optimized one
2) When desktop and mobile site are the same, users do not see the change, but feel like they are using a full version now. But this causes weird situations for developers, in case they do server/client side user-agent sniffing (yeah, I know, they shouldn't)


 
Labels: Needs-triage-Mobile
Cc: chelamcherla@chromium.org
Components: Mobile>WebAPKs
Labels: Triaged-Mobile
Tentatively adding Mobile>WebAPKs component for further help in triaging from dev team.

Thanks!
Made a small blogpost explaining the problem: https://medium.com/@nekrtemplar/is-pwa-a-full-website-91b276bfbf27

The solution would be to use wording "Desktop version" (Десктоп версия) or "PC version" (ПК версия).

Both not very popular words and may not be known to everyone because being to tech-words. But I believe it's better to teach people on new word, instead of putting perception into their minds that mobile websites are not full version.
Components: UI>Localization
Labels: -Pri-3 Target-72 M-72 FoundIn-72 Pri-2 Type-Feature
Status: Untriaged (was: Unconfirmed)
This seems to be a feature request, hence changing the status to Untriaged for further triage from dev team.

Thanks!

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