[ubuntu-web] Announcing the Ubuntu.com Website Localization Project

[Stas Sușcov]

În data de Vi, 19-03-2010 la 10:35 -0500, Matthew Nuzum a scris:
> On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 8:10 AM, Jamal <jfanaian la gmail.com> wrote:
>         On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 11:00 AM, Stas Sușcov <stas la nerd.ro>
>         wrote:
>                 Regarding client side `HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE`:
>                 try this in your browser:
>                 ---
>                 javascript:alert(navigator.language);
>                 ---
>                 worked for chromium and ff.
>         
>         
>         I mentioned before that you can get the user's language using
>         Javascript. The problem is that if they change their preferred
>         language, or specify a language other than the one the browser
>         has by default, it will not report it. Try to change your
>         preferred language and see if it works.
>         
> 
> Hi, I did a quick test and talked to a Canonical sysadmin and am going
> to propose the following:
> 
> Create static files like this:
> 
> l10n.js.en  l10n.js.de   l10n.js.fr
> 
> Then each file will be responsible only for serving it's own link. It
> won't have to do any decision making to figure out the language or
> what to show.
> 
> Apache's content negotiation will handle serving the correct file to
> users based on their language preferences. No dynamic content is
> needed. I did a quick test at
> http://people.canonical.com/~mnuzum/tmp/cn/file.js (there are three
> files, en, de and fr and they appear to be working correctly).
> 
> The project will be managed using bzr and the typical localization
> tools in launchpad.
> 
> Can anyone see a down-side to this or foresee any problems? What are
> your thoughts?
> 
Nope except it will depend on apache. If you are not planning move to a
different webserver (say I preffer nginx for static files). 

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