[FOR-934] i18n language override menu

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Open
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Affects Version/s: 0.8
• Component/s: Internationalisation (i18n), Plugin: internal.dispatcher
• Other Info: Patch available
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Sjur N. Moshagen
• Created: 20/Sep/06 11:02
• Updated: 01/Oct/06 01:44

Description

Attached is a dispatcher contract with support files. It will return a list of alternative languages available for a given document. The list is of the form:

<!--+ |start language list +-->
<span>
<a href="?locale=en">en</a>
</span>
<span>
<a href="?locale=fi">fi</a>
</span>
<span>
<a href="?locale=nb">nb</a>
</span>
<span class="selected">se</span>
<span>
<a href="?locale=smj">smj</a>
</span>
<!--+ |end language list +-->

It handles filenames following this scheme (convention is already established for Forrest):

document.XY.extension (XY = locale/language of document)
document.extension (fallback document)

If there is a fallback document, the contract will try to look inside the document to see if it can find an @xml:lang or @lang attribute to associate a language with the fallback document.

The contract returns a list of available languages, including the one being displayed. The displayed language is marked with @class="selected" in the output html.

If there is only one document available (=no alternating languages), the contract only returns three comments (start, end, and a comment stating that there's no alternative).