I agree with your idea that it should be made automatic, but how? Some people who are FR or DE speaking (i.e. have that language set) post in English (as you just did).
The manual solution (which you didn't do for the immediately previous post) allows you to select the language you actually posted in, regardless of your native tongue setting. (The language that is set for the post is displayed as a flag in the upper right just above the post itself.)
The use of multilingual posting option (select in the upper left corner of the composition window; see it in the upper right as the multi-flag panel) expects YOU to do all the translating and to set off the individual translated portions with the bracketed EN DE FR etc. flags. This is not the same functionality. It is in many ways better because it means that the translations were done with more care than Goo-trad uses.
It's confusing.
The manual solution (which you didn't do for the immediately previous post) allows you to select the language you actually posted in, regardless of your native tongue setting. (The language that is set for the post is displayed as a flag in the upper right just above the post itself.)
The use of multilingual posting option (select in the upper left corner of the composition window; see it in the upper right as the multi-flag panel) expects YOU to do all the translating and to set off the individual translated portions with the bracketed EN DE FR etc. flags. This is not the same functionality. It is in many ways better because it means that the translations were done with more care than Goo-trad uses.
It's confusing.
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