Re: [Nuxeo-localizer] possitive discrimination of a given language

[Juan David Ibáñez Palomar]

Juan David Ibáñez Palomar wrote:

> Luistxo Fernandez wrote:
>
> > David:
> >
> > > Another advantage (for you) to moving to the CVS is that it gives 
> > > you more
> > > power to change "USER_PREF_LANGUAGES", so you'll be able to implement,
> > > for example "possitive discrimination of a given language".
> >
> > Now, that´s what a customer demanded us for an ongoing project.
> >
> > Languages for the site: Spanish (es) / Basque (eu).
> >
> > It´s a site about Basque-language promotion. It happens that many 
> > Basque users just get customised PCs out of the shop with a 
> > spanish-configured browser (marketing options go that way around 
> > here). Then it would happen that many users would find Spanish 
> > first... Not very elegant, given the site´s nature.
> >
> > Dirty solution that we found: The locales for Localizer will be Irish 
> > (ga) and Basque (eu, set as default). And (ga) will be disguised as 
> > Spanish... So, everybody will get Basque first, except people with 
> > browsers configured for Irish, who will get a Spanish version.
> >
> > Disclaimer: Our choice for Irish has nothing to do with Gaelic.. It´s 
> > just that its ISO 2-letter code 'ga' fits somehow with the Basque 
> > name of the Spanish language ('Gaztelania').
> >
> > Luistxo
>
> Yes, it's a bit dirty. With the CVS version you would do:
>
> 1. Install a Localizer instance in the root of your web site.
>
> Reminder, from now the Localizer meta type will be used for language
> negotiation purposes only.
>
> 2. Add a Python script to the Localizer object named, for example,
> "accept_basque", it will receive one parameter: "accept_language".
> The script will contain one line: "accept_language.set('ba', 5.0)"


I mean: "accept_language.set('eu', 5.0)"


> 3. Change the property "accept_methods" of the Localizer object,
> add "accept_basque" to the list.
>
> That's all.
>
> This way you change the "USER_PREF_LANGUAGES" variable to
> give to the Basque language the highest priority.


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