Opened 15 years ago
Last modified 12 years ago
#11915 closed
language range request should return sublanguage — at Version 1
| Reported by: | George Lund | Owned by: | nobody |
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| Component: | Internationalization | Version: | dev |
| Severity: | Normal | Keywords: | |
| Cc: | Triage Stage: | Accepted | |
| Has patch: | yes | Needs documentation: | no |
| Needs tests: | no | Patch needs improvement: | no |
| Easy pickings: | no | UI/UX: | no |
Description (last modified by )
If a user's browser includes a request for a language range including a parent language, sub-languages which match should be returned.
For example, if a user's browser sends a header
Accept-Language: pt
And my site has
LANGUAGES = (
#...
('pt-br', 'Português (Brazil)'),
#...
)
Then the pt_BR locale files I have should be used. (RFC 2616: 'A language-range matches a language-tag if it exactly equals the tag, or if it exactly equals a prefix of the tag such that the first tag character following the prefix is "-".')
Right now the only way to get the Portugese returned is for me to relabel my local to just "pt" (which works except that the language will now be mislabelled in the Content-Language header).
Change History (1)
comment:1 by , 15 years ago
| Description: | modified (diff) |
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| Triage Stage: | Unreviewed → Design decision needed |
| Version: | 1.0 → SVN |
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This takes us to the following possible scenario: What if the
LANGUAGESsetting has, in addition to'pt-br','pt-cv'(Portuguese as spoken in Cape Verde)? How and why should Django choose'pt-br'in preference to'pt-cv'(or vice versa) if a translation to'pt'is missing?(The fact I'm using
pt,pt-brandpt-cvin this example is just incidental, the real issue is what matters)