RE: problems with internationalization

> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected] 
> [mailto:[email protected]] On 
> Behalf Of Florian Gnägi
> Sent: Monday, December 02, 2002 3:22 AM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [JPublish-developer] problems with internationalization
> 
> 
> Hi Anthony
> 
> Cool, thanks! What do you mean by 'using the language 
> header'? Do you mean the browser default settings 
> ($request.getLocale())? IMHO the browser setting is a good 
> guess but many people don't even know that their browser does 
> have such a feature. 

I believe that it would be something similar to using the
request.getLocale().

> In non english speaking countries like Switzerland where I 
> live many people do have an english browser installed (for 
> whatever reasons) and have the default settings  set to 
> english. In addition, people do have more than one browser, 
> one at work, one at home with different settings but they 
> visit the same web application. Our case might be a bit 
> special, we are building an eLearning application and 
> students do use the application from home and from different 
> computers at our campus. For this reasons we do have server 
> based user preferences for the language and other settings so 
> that users do take their settings with them. 
> 
> When you consider implementing the localization it would be 
> very kind if you implemented it in a way that we can easily 
> override it with the values stored on the server.

As long as the page method includes the setLocale() that should be
sufficient, right?

Sincerely,
Anthony Eden 



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