[pLog-general] about locale

[Oscar Renalias]

I'm still not so convinced about it, but a working (and tested!) patch 
will help a bit. As you said, it should work so that it allows the blog 
owner to choose whether to use the client browser's locale or the 
locale settings set him/her.

Oscar

On 5 Nov 2004, at 02:51, su baochen wrote:

> 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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