Changing locale

mericson · February 2011

I assumed that the 'Locale' configuration setting was used for HTML and HTTP locale information. I changed that local configuration in config.php

$Configuration['Garden']['Locale'] = 'en-US';

but it appears that 'en-CA' is still being used, for example in the HTML element

<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en-ca">

Is en-CA hardcoded?

luc · February 2011

For this xml line, indeed it appears to be.
For instance, default view in
applications/dashboard/views/default.master.php
got <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en-ca"> hardcoded.
The view can be redefined, but indeed, I think it would be better to use the locale variable.

mericson · February 2011

There definitely needs to be some cleanup! There are some places in the code where en-CA is hard coded, other places where en-US is hard coded, AND if you change your config.php to anything but en-CA there are issues (like pluralization) because of lack localization files.

Another interesting localization feature would be if there was a base language locale which provided a common base for the language, and than specific overrides for the region. That way there would be less work to localize. For example, en-US, en-CA, en-GB might share a common 'en' locale, but each can override differences.

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