Re: can't get setting locale to work

Saturday, August 23, 2008, 4:17:56 AM, Jonathan Revusky wrote:

> 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.

That's hardly a good advice, as for using #include:

(a) You already have to be in a template, that maybe itself has
    localized variations

(b) You already have to have the locale set correctly (like based on
    the detected browser locale)

> 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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