# NousResearch/hermes-agent · Browser locale detection and language switcher fixes

## Open now

- 1 issue, 1 PR open on GitHub.
- #101746: \[Bug\]: Dashboard ships 17 locales but always starts in English — \`navigator.language\` is never consulted
- PR #101761: fix(dashboard): detect browser language for first-visit locale

These items address the dashboard defaulting to English instead of consulting navigator.language on first visit, and improving visibility of the language switcher on mobile. The work spans bug reporting and proposed fixes for locale initialization behavior.

## TL;DR

- 3 member(s): 1 open issue(s), 0 closed issue(s), 1 open PR(s), 0 merged PR(s), 1 PR(s) closed without merging.
- No fix has been merged to main; one or more PRs were attempted (see below).
- **Recommended:** review the prior/competing PR(s) below. A fix was attempted but not merged; your case may extend or revive that work.

## Maintainer resolution verdict

- Internal-tracker verdict over this cluster's issue members: `unresolved`. This is distinct from the fix status above. Weigh it yourself.

## How this cluster was grouped

- Link evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.
- Pairwise link density `0.67`: the share of member pairs that carry a link, counting a structural link in full and a relevance-only link at 0.36. `1.00` means every pair is linked.

## Open related issues

- #101746: \[Bug\]: Dashboard ships 17 locales but always starts in English — \`navigator.language\` is never consulted

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#101761: fix(dashboard): detect browser language for first-visit locale**. open
  - maintainer direction: category `uncategorized`; implication `needs_llm`; refs `#101746`
  - files: `web/src/i18n/context.test.ts`, `web/src/i18n/context.tsx`
- **#127445: fix(web): visible language switcher on mobile, browser-locale default**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `uncategorized`; implication `needs_llm`

## Fix status

- No merged fix on record.
- Subsystem: `dashboard`