Re: can't get setting locale to work

Great!  Thanks that makes sense (and works).  I guess I should have stated my true objective.  I am in the process of internationalizing my app.  In some cases I would like the browser language to drive which locale to use but in others I would like to override this behavior and force either English or Spanish depending on the case.  Is there an easy way to do this?  I thought the setting approach below would do it but it is not working for me.  Any suggestions?

Thanks again,
Anna

-----Original Message-----
From: Daniel Dekany [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Friday, August 22, 2008 1:14 PM
To: Anna Putnam
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [FreeMarker-user] can't get setting locale to work

Friday, August 22, 2008, 9:57:55 PM, Anna Putnam wrote:

> I am having trouble using
> <#setting locale="es_ES"/>
>
> I have this in my ftl code:
>
> <h1>${locale}</h1>
>  <#setting locale="es_ES"/>
>  <h1>${locale}</h1>
>
> And always my page has:
>
> <h1>en_US</h1>
> <h1>en_US</h1>
>
> Is there other configuration that I need to make this work?

When you write ${locale}, you print the *plain* variable (most
certainly a data-model variable) called "locale". That you could set
as <#assign locale = "es_ES">, but as it is just a plain variable it
wouldn't have any special meaning for FreeMarker. Now, when you write
write <#setting locale="es_ES"> (as opposed to #assign) then you set the
FreeMasker *setting* called "locale". For reading the value of that
setting you can use the *special* variable called "locale", and for
referring to special variable you use an initial dot, like this:
${.locale}

> I am using freemarker version 2.3.8
>
> Thank you in advance.
>
> -Anna
>
>

--
Best regards,
 Daniel Dekany


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