Honouring Browser Locale

[francescoNemesi]

Hi There,

in my GWT application I am using GWT Constants and Messages to im
plement localisation... I know it si possible to change the the
locale by passing it to the URL or with a property in the html, but I
was wondering if there is a way for the application to honour the
user's browser locale, like "standard J2EE applications would do".

I'd really like to stick to the standard GWT localisation
implementation for its very fast response.

Thanks for any help

Francesco

[Thomas Broyer]

Unfotunately, there's no reliable way to obtain the equivalent of the
Accept-Languages request header in JavaScript (IE has
navigator.userLanguage, Opera has navigator.language, but Firefox's
navigator.language is the browser's locale, not the ones you set in
the preferences).

AFAICT, you should be able to override the property-provider for
locale in your module's *.gwt.xml to use those properties if you like,
but you'd better do content-negotiation on the server-side to return a
different <meta>, or eventually redirect to the ?locale=, depending on
the Accept-Languages request header (when there's no ?locale=XX
already).

[francescoNemesi]

Thank You for this... I'll look for some workaround...