Video titles appear in English despite the app language being set to French

[alexandre-leng]

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Affected version

0.28.0

Steps to reproduce the bug

1. Open NewPipe

2. Confirm that the app language is set to French

3. Perform a search

4. Open any YouTube french channel from the results

5. Notice that all video titles are displayed in English

Expected behavior

Video titles should appear in French when the app language is set to French, similar to how they appear on YouTube in a web browser.

Actual behavior

Titles are always shown in English regardless of the selected language.

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[hollownights]

The app language is the app language, the content language is the content language. Check out Settings>Content>"Default content language" and "Default content country".

[alexandre-leng]

Of course I am a developer and IT trainer and I have already done all that.

[alexandre-leng]

Please see this screenshots

[hollownights]

My bad. I can reproduce the issue. Gotta wait for a developer to tell us when the country and content language parameters are actually used to retrieve content, as I am now under the impression that they are only used to retrieve the trending pages' content.

EDIT:
Turns out this is an old issue (#3089, #12333, #12442) and probably not something easily fixable, because, as I understand, using english as the default language to retrieve content from most pages is something done to prevent breakage when parsing them (TeamNewPipe/NewPipeExtractor#114).

[alexandre-leng]

I think this problem needs to be fixed because it's annoying for a non-English speaking audience.

[hollownights]

It can be annoying, but, in a way, this is as much a NewPipe problem as it is a problem caused by that content creator you referenced, cause he chose to let YouTube auto-translate the titles of his videos (and provide english AI dubbing to them) even though he doesn't make content in english at all. He does not even provide subtitles in english, but he is trying to catch an english-speaking audience with those auto-translated titles anyway.

[alexandre-leng]

Actually, YouTube automatically translates video titles into English. And Newpipe is detected as being in English even if I change the language to French; it's a bug.

[moonshaadow]

I can reproduce.
I agree with @alexandre-leng : it's a Newpipe bug :

• it doesn't happen on YouTube
• it happens in search results, channels lists, trendings, but automatic translation disappears on video view or in history.
• titles are automatically (and often badly) translated in English and there is no way to change language or to disable translation.