What is affected by the Global Default Language?

[Martin Böhme]

The Confluence Documentation does not really offer information about which contents use the Global Default Language and which contents use the user's preferences.

According to the Help Tips at /admin/viewlanguage.action, the GDL "will only affect users if their browser does not send a language to Confluence [...]".

This is just wrong. As of Confluence 6.1.2 (or also older ones like 5.9.7), the GDL also affects (at least):

• the subjects of outgoing e-mails (only the mail content will be in the User's language)
• default Templates

In both cases, the user's preference is ignored. Does this happen on purpose?

I understand there are some reasons, why Templates should be the same throughout Confluence. But why shouldn't an e-mail subject be in the same language as its contents?

And why am I not able to find this information in the Confluence Documentation? I'd really appreciate if Atlassian engaged more in means of multilingualism...

Back to the initial question: What exactly is affected by the Global Default Language?

[AnnWorley]

Per Choosing a Default Language the default language should be applied to all spaces in your Confluence site.

The email subject line issue is a bug, not intended behavior:

Language settings about email notifications of sharing pages on Confluence

The bug is public so feel free to vote and/or comment on it.