[Zope] Re: Hmm... Localizer or Localizer

[Chris Withers]

Peter Bengtsson wrote:
>> You simply didn't read Five/doc/i18n.txt
>> (http://codespeak.net/z3/five/i18n.html). Googling "five i18n" gives you
>> that as a first hit. "RTFM" is all I can say here.
>>
> Don't RTFM me! I've read that page and unless you have a PhD in
> physics and indept experience of Zope 3 is really doesn't make a lot
> of sense. Plus, I've got your cookbook at home :)

Urm, no, sorry, don't buy that. The docs are pretty good...

> So, should I use PTS or not??

You do whatever you want, just don't come crying to us when you're 
screaming in pain with PTS ;-)
(of course, it may "just work" for you, in which case you're lucky)

> "The default behaviour for choosing languages in Five is the one of
> Zope 3: analyze the Accept-Language HTTP header and nothing more."
> This is not good enough.

Knocking up a negotiator that does what you want is pretty easy. I 
already offered to send you code that does what you want...

> When I send out email alerts to people in my
> app, that's a wget script that kicks if off, not a Mozilla browser.

What has this got to do with anything?
(although, fwiw, url whacking is dumb, don't do that, look at Stepper 
and tricker it with cron)

> I have no idea what this does or what I'm supposed to do with:
> <adapter
>    for="zope.publisher.interfaces.http.IHTTPRequest"
>    provides="zope.i18n.interfaces.IUserPreferredLanguages"
>    factory="Products.Five.i18n.PTSLanguages"
>    />

Then it's time for you to read more FM. This is all explained, from what 
I remember.

> Please tell me there's a function or something that works like this::
> 
>  def index_html(self):
>       uid = self._getLoggedinUID()
>       wants_lang = self._getUserPreference(uid, default='en')
>       setCurrentLanguage(wants_lang)
>       return _("I wish it was easier")
> 
> def manage_setUserPreference(self, uid, lang):
>      if lang in getAvailableLanguages():
>          self._setUserPreference(uid, lang)
> 
> Where _getUserPreference() and _setUserPreference() is something I'm
>  expected to write for my app.

No, it's not quite like this, but it is just as easy.

cheers,

Chris

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