> De: Piroumian, Konstantin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Enviado el: Viernes, 25 de Mayo de 2001 10:45 a.m.
> Para: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Asunto: Re: LangSelect, bug ?
>
>
> > > I am going to change the LangSelect to make it more flexible and
> > > configurable. I'll also take a look at that strange behavior
> with empty
> > > params.
> > >
> > > I am going to make it able to store the selected language in a session
> or
> > > cookie (now only session is supported, but I couldn't get it
> working as
> I
> > > was expecting).
> >
> > By means of configuration and/or parameters I hope.
>
> Sure :)
>
> > > I am using the LangSelect inside of my new I18nTransformer
> > > and I also interested in a good language selection mechanism.
> >
> > IIRC the language from the agent (browser) isn't respected, right? Would
> > be a great improvement to have it so users can set their preferred
> > language in their browsers and langSelect can choose it from there as
> > well.
>
> That is the one of the features that have to be implemented.
> I am thinking of such sequence of language selection:
>
> 1. Check request for a param with a name 'lang' (if the user
> choosed another
> language manually).
> 2. Lookup for a 'lang' cookie.
> 3. Lookup for a session attribute 'lang'.
> if none of this is succesful, then:
> 4. Check the accept-languages header and select the first (supported by
> application) language.
> if no supported langs or no information in the header:
> 5. Set the default language for the site (configured in the sitemap).
> 6. or set English as the current language.
I think the session should go before the cookie, so you can log in to a site
with a different languaje only for that session, without changing the
default languaje for your future visits there.
> So, on his first entry to the site the user will get either one of the
> browser languages or the default one.
> After he will choose a language (it comes from the request) then
> LangSelect
> will be able to store the current language in a cookie (and next
> time user
> will get the page in that lang) or in the session (lang will be kept only
> during the session and next time user will have to choose it again).
>
> >
> > > If there are any comments and ideas, I will take them into account.
> >
> > YUp ;)
> >
> > > After this weekend I think I will post a modified version of the
> > > I18nTransformer and a new LangSelect action.
> >
> > Cool.
>
> I hope so, but nobody knows what could happen to me this weekend :))
>
> >
> > Giacomo
>
> Konstantin.
>
>
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