Well i figured out that once we use the user object obtained from the rundata to set the locale and the language ,all the portlets that use the internationalisation tags will show the new language values.
I obtain the locale information from the Operating system and based on that set the language and locale variables within the user object. That seems to do have done the work for me, Also in future even if the requirement is for the user to choose a language of interest then that can be provided through a portlet in the portal. Whatever the user chooses a language from that "Changelanguage" portlet can be set to the user object and bingo the internationalisation for that portal is done should be done in the next referesh. I would appreciate it if someone would comment on these ideas. Also i notice that countless other users had the same localisation question but none of them ever got answered. I wonder what is the reason. Is it because this question is too silly to be answered...:-)? I had to look at the code and did a lot of trial and error to come to this conclusion. Some mailing list information also helped (but a completely unrelated question). Thanks , Archana >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 01/09/04 07:39PM >>> Hi, I'm trying to understand how internationalisation works in the portal world. My questions are the following: 1) Can i have a JSP portlet with a list of languages before the user logs in so that the user can choose a langauge and that language can be applied to the whole portal? 2) How is the language determined in the jetspeed portal? What is flow within the Jetspeed architecture when a language is selected? 3) I was trying to figure out the Changelanguage.vm but because that is velocity code i do not understand fully what is going on. I was hoping to write a Changelaguage.jsp that will do the same. Please any suggestions as to how i can accomplish writing this JSP? 4) Based on the mailing list i could see that there should one template JSP per language to support multi-lingual JSP portlets. But this somehow seems tedious. I was thinking more in line of resource files that will contain language specific values whose keys can be referred in one JSP template. Use the I10N tag library to get the values specific to one language. Is this correct and is this possible? Thanks and any help is appreciated. I'm working to figure out in the meanwhile but i'm going at a snail's pace. Regards, Archana
