Getting the iso-639-1 Language code from a Country

[Daniel Dias]

Hi.

I need to change the Locale in my application according to the current user Country (user is logged in and country_id available through the active session). Looking inside globalize's code and after same research I still can't figure out a way to get the iso-639-1 language code from one country.

Making an association between Languages and Countries could work, but it's hard and I don't think it's the better solution.

Any help will be appreciated.

Thanks.

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Daniel Dias

[Chris Cruft]

Daniel,

This subject was quite topical last year when I submitted some patches to Globalize.  There is, of course, a big problem in that the mapping of Country->Language is not 1:1.  Think Canada, Switzerland, China, etc.  So there will be no perfect solution.  Instead, I believe that we considered a default language per country that could optionally be setup in the database.

 

AFAIK, nothing became of those discussions.

 

-Chris

 

Chris Hapgood

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From: Daniel Dias [mailto:lupeke@...]
Sent: Monday, March 03, 2008 13:59
To: users@...
Subject: Getting the iso-639-1 Language code from a Country

Hi.

I need to change the Locale in my application according to the current user Country (user is logged in and country_id available through the active session). Looking inside globalize's code and after same research I still can't figure out a way to get the iso-639-1 language code from one country.

Making an association between Languages and Countries could work, but it's hard and I don't think it's the better solution.

Any help will be appreciated.

Thanks.

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Daniel Dias

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[Daniel Dias]

Thanks for the quick reply Chris.

I thought it was possible to dynamically "guess" the user's language but it's not so simple. Having a default_lang per country like you suggest won't work in my case since I do have to handle more than one lang by country.

Anyway, I solved the problem adding an extra attribute "native_language" to the User model witch will be filled by the user itself.

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Daniel Dias

On Mon, Mar 3, 2008 at 4:55 PM, Chris Hapgood <cch1@...> wrote:

Daniel,

This subject was quite topical last year when I submitted some patches to Globalize.  There is, of course, a big problem in that the mapping of Country->Language is not 1:1.  Think Canada, Switzerland, China, etc.  So there will be no perfect solution.  Instead, I believe that we considered a default language per country that could optionally be setup in the database.

 

AFAIK, nothing became of those discussions.

 

-Chris

 

Chris Hapgood

Phone: [phone]

Skype: chris.hapgood

Email: cch1@...

 

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From: Daniel Dias [mailto:lupeke@...]
Sent: Monday, March 03, 2008 13:59
To: users@...
Subject: Getting the iso-639-1 Language code from a Country

Hi.

I need to change the Locale in my application according to the current user Country (user is logged in and country_id available through the active session). Looking inside globalize's code and after same research I still can't figure out a way to get the iso-639-1 language code from one country.

Making an association between Languages and Countries could work, but it's hard and I don't think it's the better solution.

Any help will be appreciated.

Thanks.

--
Daniel Dias

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