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Note, in passing, an issue related to the Google text I used in the previous example. The dialogue allowed you to select a different language for the user interface from a pull-down list, presumably assuming that your reason for changing was that you couldn't read the current language.
The issue for me is that the names of all the languages are in the language of the current page. Let's assume, for example, that a curious person wanted to see what the interface looked like in Persian, so they selected that language from the list and clicked on the 'Save Preferences' button.
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