[opencms-dev] Multilingual sites - Browser's AcceptedLanguages

[Peter Olsson]

Hi,

I found an earlier posting about this with the code for an alternative 
LocaleHandler 
(http://mail.opencms.org/pipermail/opencms-dev/2004q4/014031.html) which 
gives the behavior I want. That is, the locale from the Accept-Language 
setting of the browser is used if it is one of the configured languages. 
I also get the functionality for the user to set the preferred language 
explicitly.

But is this the right path to go?
Or can this be done in some other way?

I also get an automatic fallback if there is no translation of a 
specific element in the preferred language of a page. That is, the 
elements that are not translated will be in English.

/Peter

Peter Olsson wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm trying to use OpenCms for a web site with several languages. It has 
> English as the base language and then we have translations for different 
> parts and pages. At present the web site have approximately 12 languages.
> 
> At this point I have one problem to start with:
> 
> In the OpenCms 6 book (page 75) Matt Butcher writes that "Based on the 
> browser's language settings, the end user will be served whichever 
> language they prefer!". I also believe this has worked in some older 
> version I have tried before but now I cant get it to work this way.
> 
> In the code (6.2.1) I have found the handler for this in the class 
> org.opencms.i18n.CmsDefaultLocaleHandler. It retrieves the locale from 
> 1) the parameter __locale if present, 2) it uses the locale for the 
> requested resource if defined and if it is one of the locale defined in 
> the opencms-system.xml file, 3) the first locale in opencms-system.xml, 
> and 4) the default locale for OpenCms (=English). If I remember coorect 
> this is at least approximately what happends but the thing is that there 
> is nothing that look at the AcceptedLanguages.
> 
> Looking in Alkacon's Technical slide presentation 
> (http://www.opencms.org/export/download/alkacon/Alkacon_OpenCms_6_Technical.pdf) 
> it says that "The selected language is controlled by the configured 
> locale handler: - default: configured locale property on folder - 
> alternative: use browser locale".
> 
> The locale handler can be defined in opencms-system.xml and the default 
> one is org.opencms.i18n.CmsDefaultLocaleHandler. There is a class 
> org.opencms.i18n.CmsAcceptLanguageHeaderParser but no LocaleHandler that 
> uses it. At least I can't find one.
> 
> Is there a class that implements I_CmsLocaleHandler and handles browser 
> locale or do I have to write one?
> 
> Or how can this be done?
> 
> 
> /Peter Olsson
> 
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