Re: can't get setting locale to work

On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 1:17 PM, Anna Putnam <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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?

You are on the right track, I think. If there are template sections
that are internationalized according to some logic, perhaps the best
thing is to use #include after setting the .locale as already
described. Then you basically leverage the fact that template loading
has locale logic built-in. Your code can have

[#include "foo.ftl"]

and, if the .locale is es_ES, it will, with no special configuration
on your part, look for foo_es_ES.ftl and then foo_es.ftl and fall back
on foo.ftl.

JR

>
> 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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