Jon Whitlock created CB-4602:
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Summary: getPreferredLanguage platform inconsistencies
Key: CB-4602
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-4602
Project: Apache Cordova
Issue Type: Improvement
Components: Android, Plugin Globalization
Affects Versions: 3.0.0, 2.6.0
Environment: Android
Reporter: Jon Whitlock
Assignee: Joe Bowser
Priority: Minor
In;
https://github.com/apache/cordova-docs/blob/master/docs/en/edge/cordova/globalization/globalization.getPreferredLanguage.md
"Returns the language identifier string to the successCallback with a
properties object as a parameter. That object should have a value property with
a String value."
navigator.globalization.getPreferredLanguage(
function (language) {alert('language: ' + language.value + '\n');},
function () {alert('Error getting language\n');}
);
On Android the function doesn't seem to return an identifier as such, it
returns *a string describing the language localised to that language*, e.g.
"English" for English or "中文" for Japanese. Naturally this is less than ideal
for subsequent string operations, furthermore on that page "Windows Phone 8
Quirks - Returns the ISO 639-1 two-letter code for the current language" which
is an identifier, and also what I would expect (or an ISO 639-2 code, as per
http://www.loc.gov/standards/iso639-2/php/code_list.php)
Android seems to support 639-2
http://developer.android.com/reference/java/util/Locale.html#getISO3Language()
I have no idea what it returns on other platforms, but to keep client code
consistent I guess it would good if this could be normalised in the API.
Have tested this on v3.0 and 2.6, is the same.
As an aside, the locale is not really what I want here, as the user may be in
the US but have Japanese as their preferred language.
Thanks,
jon
(first go at using Jira, apols if I got something wrong!)
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