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Does anyone know a way to query the logged-in account's locale (= display language) using the Mastodon API? From what I can tell, I need this to determine whether to show the Translate button or not.
@megalodon
You can also use the device locale.
@apps Would do that as a last resort, but I can never be sure that it's the correct one and that translation will work… Kind of a shame the translation endpoint doesn't take a target language parameter
@megalodon
We use device locale for displaying or not this icon.
@apps If I do that, I could still have cases like this:
* My Mastodon account is set to English
* My phone could be set to German
* Megalodon would display a translate button for English posts, but not for German posts
* Mastodon would try to translate English posts to English
…all because I display the translate button for the wrong language. I think I might actually go for the HTML scraping approach to get the right language 
@megalodon
Yes but from the api endpoint, you can get what languages an account uses for posting.
If a message does not target these languages, the app displays a translate button.
@apps True, but at least using the Mastodon translation endpoint, querying one's default posting language doesn't really work, as it's (if it is set at all) usually set to a language that's different from the display language. Since the display language is what Mastodon will translate to, this creates the same edge cases as with the differing device language. Also, my brain is breaking thinking about so many languages