Hello Chris,
The basic i18n infrastructure is fine and working well, but there are
a few known shortcomings, the major one being that the CLI crawler
(used with forrest site) isn't i18n aware. Thus, running forrest as
'forrest run' (with the bundled Jetty) is working ok, but generating
static, multilingual pages isn't that straightforward. There is a
cumbersome workaround documented somewhere.
Because of the i18n problems with the CLI, full support for i18n is
by default turned off in the main forrest sitemap, thus forrest won't
remember which locale you last used when requesting a new page. I
have been planning to have a look at this, but haven't found the time
yet.
Den 27. des. 2006 kl. 09.12 skrev C. Grobmeier:
Hi all,
i saw that i18n is quite easy with forrest. I just added
index.de.xml to my directory and everything went fine. With the
param ?locale=fr i can switch to the french version.
When i have german locale on is it possible to click on something
and say:"from nowon use EN locale instead?". Maybe i can easily put
in a session or..?
You can by editing the main forrest sitemap ($FORREST_HOME/main/
webapp/sitemap.xmap - change all i18n config options to 'true'), but
that will make forrest incompatible with the command line crawler
(the CLI). The changes I describe will store the current chosen
locale in the session, and use that one if nothing else is specified/
requested (it will take presedence over browser locales, of course).
In addition, I have made a dispatcher contract (dispatcher is 0.8-dev
stuff - if you have more questions, we should probably continue on
the dev list), but I haven't commited that contract, because it
presently relies on features that are incompatible with the CLI. And
that is of course unacceptable. The contract provides a list of
avaliable language versions of a given page, looking at filenames -
and in some cases inside files - to identify the locale of the
source. It is a very useful tool, but it only works in jetty mode
(that is, 'forrest run').
Btw: when i try:
http://localhost:8888/samples/demo-i18n.html?locale=fr
it wents to the french version, with
http://localhost:8888/samples/demo-i18n.html
i am at the german version, but with:
http://localhost:8888/samples/demo-i18n.html?locale=en
nothing happens. I think i must have an demo-i18n.en.html
somewhere, must i?
I think there should be one already (as the default language), but I
can't find it. But yes, you need an English file, either as a default
file, or as you have listed it above.
Hope you had all great christmas :-)
Regards
Chris.
Thanks, the same to you:-)
Best regards,
Sjur
