On Tue, Dec 05, 2017 at 03:15:06PM -0800, Zibi Braniecki (Gandalf) wrote: > Hi all, > > We just landed a major patch which replaces `general.useragent.locale` pref > with a new pref `intl.locale.requested`. > > Historically, `general.useragent.locale` has been widely used to set a > locale for Firefox UI. > > This year, we introduced a full new API called mozilla::intl::LocaleService > which allows for setting and reading via setRequestedLocales and > getRequestedLocales, respectively. > > Behind some linting and checking, the API still used > `general.useragent.locale` which limited us due to the nature of the pref > and how it stored data. > > With the change, we introduce a new pref - `intl.locale.requested`, which > can be set in the same manner if needed, but can also handle a list of > locales separated via `,` character and is validated to accept only > well-formed BCP47 language tags [1] making our locale handling much more > flexible and resilient. > > This is one of the last major changes in the grand rewrite of how Gecko > handles locales and language negotiation. > > If you need to read/write the requested locales it is *highly* preferred > that you use the (mozI)LocaleService API over reading/writing to the pref > itself, but if you must, the code will be able to handle your change with > grace. > > Over last months we removed all direct writes/reads of the pref, so I hope > there is nothing remaining, and we also introduced a migration code in > nsBrowserGlue for 59 users, but if you happen to encounter a regression, > please report it and CC me. > > If you have any questions about it, let me know!
Any change wrt intl.locale.matchOS? Mike _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
