Reply to post: Re: Very poor by design.

Much like the British on holiday, NHS COVID-19 app refuses to work with phones using unsupported languages

Howard Sway Silver badge

Re: Very poor by design.

I think you're assuming much more thought went into it than actually did. More probably something more like this :

Select page_text where language_id = device_language_id

So, nothing returned when a device language hasn't been included.

I know this thing got written in a rush, but a decent developer would have spotted that using a default was necessary when doing this for unsupported languages. Which is worrying, as an app of rather some importance in a serious crisis shouldn't be written by inexperienced junior coders.

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