Country detection via language: How does it work?

[waldgeist (Tom Brückner)]

In its easiest form, Piwik uses the browser language to detect the country where the user is located. I am wondering how exactly this mechanism works. Is it using the HTTP Accept-Language header, or does the JavaScript code send the language based on the navigator object’s language properties?

[Lukas (Lukas Winkler)]

In case someone finds the post:

@sgiehl

@derwaldgeist the language is detected based on header only

https://github.com/matomo-org/matomo/issues/9251#issuecomment-377260920

[waldgeist (Tom Brückner)]

Thanks for the info and linking the Github issue!