Re: I18Nv2 - get locale from language/country

Hi Andreas Korthaus, you wrote: > Michael Wallner wrote: >> >> As long as you're using locales which I18Nv2 knows of (only >> important for Windows -- or which are installed on your Linux >> machine) - yes. > > > How could I check if a locale is supported on a system? C:\>php -r "var_dump(setlocale(LC_ALL,'de'));" bool(false) C:\>php -r "var_dump(setlocale(LC_ALL,'deu'));" string(19) "German_Germany.1252" s1-iw:~$ /usr/bin/php -r 'var_dump(setlocale(LC_ALL, "de"));' bool(false) s1-iw:~$ /usr/bin/php -r 'var_dump(setlocale(LC_ALL, "de_DE"));' string(5) "de_DE" locale -a will give you all available locales on a Linux machine. >> I suppose, negotiating the locale at the first >> visit, providing a drop-down or similar and storing the preferred >> language/locale in the session/db, to be common practice. > > > My problem is _what_ to provide in these drop-downs, so that every user *Now* I get you :) > understands what to do. At the moment I have a drop-down for the > language of the software (for translation), and I have a drop-down for > the country which belongs to the users address. But I have to avoid > invalid combinations of these two values, if I use these as locale > later. But this is not allways possible. If I am german and work for a > company in United States, my selected language is "de" and my selected > country is "US". So I get the locale "de_US", which is not valid I think > ;-) > > So if this is common practice, what is the typical content of such > drop-downs? Or do you know a good Example? > > Firefox uses something like: > > Language > -------- > [...] > German [de] > German/Germany [de_DE] > German/Austria [de_AT] > English [en] > English/Great Britain [en_GB] > English/United States [en_US] > [...] > > But I don't like it so much for a web-application. If you know of a "language => country" map or if you are going to write one up, that would be of really great use :) Regards, -- Michael - < mike(@)php.net >

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