Plone 5 Multilingual Language Negotiation Schemes

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I have not been able to find anything describing the full impact of each negotiation scheme in the plone.app.multilingual package.

The PAM documentation that I am using is:
https://docs.plone.org/develop/plone/i18n/translating_content.html

https://docs.plone.org/external/plone.app.multilingual/README.html#step-1-relocate-content-to-the-proper-root-language-folder

If anyone knows of any deep documentation on this topic, please share.

Additionally, I am trying to have the site root automatically navigate to the default language if no language is selected.

For a pseudo-example, navigating to https://mysite.com should take the user to https://mysite.com/en if the language could not be determined. Can this only be achieved at the web server, or is there a way for it to be accomplished by the site's Language settings?

Thanks in advance for the insight!

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By default when installing plone.app.multilingual a special default view is assigned to the Plone portal object to do the proper language negotiation. This view is defined here: https://github.com/plone/plone.app.multilingual/blob/master/src/plone/app/multilingual/browser/switcher.py#L7

If you want to override the behavior with a custom one, you need either to override that view.

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Thanks so much, Mikel! That was exactly what I needed to know. It seemed that by default the display view is not selected, but I selected it, and it now has the exact desired behavior. It is possible that I changed it early on and did not pay attention to the fact that I changed it. Either way, it now works swimmingly.