[pLog-general] about locale

[su baochen]

As to locale, I think that mean:

1 localized the menu,toolbar, tip message and etc.
2 localized the contents of the site.

For the second point,it is very difficult to achive, so we can just
ignore by now:-)

For the first point, I think this is meaningful to website visitors.
Please think about the locale of the office suite such as
openoffice,localizse the menu and tool tip is helpful to users, although
user may understand Englith well, but the mother language always feel
more comfortable:-),yes?

There is a idea: give the blog owner an option to set the blog locale,
but also give the visitor an option to select their languag. And,  the
blog owner can control if the user selection enabled or disabled, in an
other word, blog owner can decide if visitor can select thire own
language.


在2004年11月05日的01:37，Oscar Renalias写道：
> 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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