Re: [go-nuts] How can I fetch the default locale (server locale not from the request) in Golang

[Anish P]

Just an update on the same. Even the library from "Jibber-Jabber" seems to
be returning only empty string values.

Forced to set this as an ENVIRONMENT_VARIABLE for the time being and moving
on.

Cheers
Anish

On Sat, Feb 17, 2018 at 8:05 PM, Anish P <prabhakaran.anish1...@gmail.com>
wrote:

> Thanks for the details. Had a look earlier at the code mentioned by 
> Jibber-Jabber
> as you mentioned. Will post the status as soon as I try this out.
>
> Cheers
> Anish
>
> On Sat, Feb 17, 2018 at 9:55 AM, <uwe.dauernh...@betalo.se> wrote:
>
>> Java’s Locale.getDefault returns (if not overridden) the values from the
>> system property “user.language” and “user.region”. If these are not set, it
>> simply returns “en”. See http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk
>> 8u/jdk8u60/jdk/file/935758609767/src/share/classes/java/util/Locale.java
>>
>> For Linux: These system properties (if not overridden) are set on Linux
>> by interpreting the environment variable “LANG”. See
>> https://docs.oracle.com/javame/config/cdc/cdc-opt-impl/
>> ojmeec/1.0/runtime/html/localization.htm
>>
>> Thus the equivalent code in Go would be to access this environment
>> variable. Thus a simple `locale = os.Getenv("LANG")` or as Jibber-Jabber
>> does it:
>>
>> ```
>> locale = os.Getenv("LC_ALL")
>> if locale == "" {
>> locale = os.Getenv("LANG")
>> }
>> ```
>>
>> If it is correct that, as you stated, that you have no access to
>> environment variables, you won’t be able to conclude more than “en” to be
>> compatible with Java’s behavior.
>>
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Re: [go-nuts] How can I fetch the default locale (server locale not from the request) in Golang

[Anish P]

Thanks for the details. Had a look earlier at the code mentioned by
Jibber-Jabber
as you mentioned. Will post the status as soon as I try this out.

Cheers
Anish

On Sat, Feb 17, 2018 at 9:55 AM,  wrote:

> Java’s Locale.getDefault returns (if not overridden) the values from the
> system property “user.language” and “user.region”. If these are not set, it
> simply returns “en”. See http://hg.openjdk.java.net/
> jdk8u/jdk8u60/jdk/file/935758609767/src/share/
> classes/java/util/Locale.java
>
> For Linux: These system properties (if not overridden) are set on Linux by
> interpreting the environment variable “LANG”. See https://docs.oracle.com/
> javame/config/cdc/cdc-opt-impl/ojmeec/1.0/runtime/html/localization.htm
>
> Thus the equivalent code in Go would be to access this environment
> variable. Thus a simple `locale = os.Getenv("LANG")` or as Jibber-Jabber
> does it:
>
> ```
> locale = os.Getenv("LC_ALL")
> if locale == "" {
> locale = os.Getenv("LANG")
> }
> ```
>
> If it is correct that, as you stated, that you have no access to
> environment variables, you won’t be able to conclude more than “en” to be
> compatible with Java’s behavior.
>
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Re: [go-nuts] How can I fetch the default locale (server locale not from the request) in Golang

[Anish P]

My bad.

I was referring to the same.Something which is packaged in go giving a
standard locale ID as q_AL, ar_DZ

Cheers
Anish

On Fri, Feb 16, 2018 at 10:08 PM, Ian Lance Taylor <i...@golang.org> wrote:

> On Fri, Feb 16, 2018 at 8:21 AM, Anish P
> <prabhakaran.anish1...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > I'm looking to fetch the IANA timezone.
>
> For what it's worth, I don't usually call the timezone a "locale".  In
> programming, "locale" usually refers to language related issues.  See
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Locale_(computer_software) .
>
> To get the timezone name, see https://golang.org/pkg/time/#Time.Zone .
>
> Ian
>

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Re: [go-nuts] How can I fetch the default locale (server locale not from the request) in Golang

[Anish P]

I'm looking to fetch the IANA timezone.

Cheers
Anish


Thanks and Regards
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On Fri, Feb 16, 2018 at 9:40 PM, Ian Lance Taylor  wrote:

> On Fri, Feb 16, 2018 at 7:46 AM,   wrote:
> >
> > The intention is basically to send out translations from the deployed
> shard.
> > Hence,we are trying to find the locale of the server locale. Because of
> some
> > reason, we cannot extract this as an environment variable on the shard or
> > get it from the client.
>
> What operating system?
>
> What format do you want for the locale?
>
> Ian
>
>
> > On Wednesday, 14 February 2018 20:21:05 UTC+5:30, Ian Lance Taylor wrote:
> >>
> >> On Tue, Feb 13, 2018 at 11:19 PM,   wrote:
> >> >
> >> >   I'm a newbee to Golang and am trying to fetch the default server
> >> > locale.
> >> > Can you help me how I can fetch the default server locale in golang?
> >> >
> >> > In other words, I'm looking for the Java equivalent code in golang i.e
> >> > 'Locale.getDefault()'
> >>
> >> Go doesn't use locales in the same way that Java does.  If you tell us
> >> what you want to do with that information, we may be able to help.
> >> You may want to look at https://godoc.org/golang.org/x/text .
> >>
> >> Ian
> >
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