Opened 7 years ago
Last modified 7 years ago
#28070 closed Bug
set_language (i18n) without next does not change language if called from a language prefixed URL — at Initial Version
| Reported by: | Monsieur Cellophane | Owned by: | nobody |
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| Component: | Internationalization | Version: | 1.11 |
| Severity: | Normal | Keywords: | set_language, url translation |
| Cc: | Triage Stage: | Unreviewed | |
| Has patch: | no | Needs documentation: | no |
| Needs tests: | no | Patch needs improvement: | no |
| Easy pickings: | no | UI/UX: | no |
Description
Greetings.
Preamble:
Switching language by posting to set_language with an empty next parameter causes a redirection to the REFERER url, as per the documentation.
Description:
What this means is that if language selection is made from a language-neutral URL (say /about/), selecting english as language the redirection in set_language will land the user to /en/about.
If - however - a new language selection (say de) is now made from /en/about/, the landing spot will be (again) /en/about, rather than the expected /de/about; the new language is now, however, memorised in the user's session.
What should happen:
Invoking set_language from a language prefixed page with an empty next parameter should redirect to the language-neutral URL, allowing the session based url selection to kick in.
What would help:
Of course, being able to reference the current language-neutral url as the next parameter to set_language would achieve the result. However, language-neutral urls aren't availble in templates (or anywhere I looked); so one's best hope is writing a custom template filter that strips the language prefix from a URL and hen use the stripped request.path o request.get_fulL_path as the next parameter to the POST.