[pLog-general] about locale

[Oscar Renalias]

The background for this design choice is the following: It doesn't make 
much sense if the content of a blog is in Swedish, and because my 
browser is set to request Spanish as the language, the rest of the 
interface in Spanish.

I still think it's a better option to allow the owner of the blog to 
choose in which language the site will be always shown. Also there are 
issues with the languages themselves... If you visit my site and your 
browser is set to Chinese, my site could potentially look awful in 
Chinese and I wouldn't even know. Not to mention if we ever provide 
translations to right-to-left languages (hebrew, farsi, etc), since 
sites have to be carefully designed for those.

I'm open to suggestions anyway :)

Oscar

On 4 Nov 2004, at 15:45, su baochen wrote:

> hi,
>
> Below is the code from blogaction.class.php:
>
>             // initialize the locale
>             $blogSettings = $this->_blogInfo->getSettings();
>             $localeCode = $blogSettings->getValue( 'locale' );
>             $this->_locale = Locales::getLocale( $localeCode );
>
>
> So, you see, in plog world, the locale is defined by the blog owner, 
> not
> by the visitors.
>
> I think this is not the real meaning of the "locale". When you visit a
> wesite, you'd like to read the site with your own language?
>
> So, locale is setting by the visitors, not the blog owner.
>
> Any idea?
>
>
> -- 
> su baochen <subaochen at 126.com>
>
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