[Xerte-dev] Re: Language fall back

[Julian Tenney]

Wouldn't this only happen if the distributed build had the missing bits in?

If people add half language support to their own installations, that's up to them, n'est pas?

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From: xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [mailto:xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Pat Lockley
Sent: 12 March 2012 22:33
To: For Xerte technical developers
Subject: [Xerte-dev] Re: Language fall back

I would shy away from 2

It leaves open what to do If a php file exists but a Inc file doesn't for this language but does for another language. Fail? Load?

On 12 Mar 2012, at 22:13, David Goodwin <david at palepurple.co.uk> wrote:

> The standard approach is :
> 
> 1. Check for existence of $_COOKIE value e.g. for 'lang', if present, use that.
> 2. Check to see what languages the browser requests (see e.g. Zend_Locale (I think)) and if we have a matching one use that.
> 3. Allow the user to choose via some sort of drop down.
> 
> 
> I was planning on implementing 1 and 2 sometime soon.
> 
> David.
> 
> On 12 Mar 2012, at 19:57, Pat Lockley wrote:
> 
>> issue
>> 
>> In the future some one may wish to develop some new functionality in XOT
>> 
>> This may be written in Dutch or Spanish
>> 
>> It may be plausible to have a site supporting multiple languages
>> 
>> The translation for Dutch may be there for Spanish, but might not be
>> there for English.
>> 
>> How do we support a "fallback language"?
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