Opened 7 years ago
Last modified 6 years ago
#28636 new New feature
Translation module: Check `LANG_INFO` against user's language preference as optional feature — at Initial Version
| Reported by: | Denis Anuschewski | Owned by: | nobody |
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| Component: | Internationalization | Version: | dev |
| Severity: | Normal | Keywords: | translation, internationalization, request |
| Cc: | Triage Stage: | Accepted | |
| Has patch: | yes | Needs documentation: | yes |
| Needs tests: | yes | Patch needs improvement: | no |
| Easy pickings: | no | UI/UX: | no |
Description
Problem: In the current state, the user's discovered language preference is only returned when found in settings.LANGUAGES. That's more than sufficient for the normal translation routine, but there seems to be no way (at least no DRY way) to find out a user's locale preference REGARDLESS of settings.LANGUAGES.
Suggestion: It would be nice to have an easy way for finding out a languange preference from request, even if it's not listed in your supported languages. You could think of an optional flag, so that the preference from get_language_from_request is checked against LANG_INFO in the translation module rather than only against settings.LANGUAGES. This would give you a locale from all languages that are available in the translation module. You could use that e.g. for comparing with settings.LANGUAGE_CODE and add a fallback for specific cases.