Re: Session Language?

["Ilya A. Volynets-Evenbakh" <ilya@total-knowledge.com>]

Sounds good.

Alexey Parshin wrote:
> Ok,
>
> At my best understanding:
>
> 1) We define a new entity: 'request language'
>
> 2) If the request language is defined in request, it takes priority 
> over default languages
>
> 3) Request language isn't stored in session but lives as a part of the 
> request only
>
> That is pretty much what I had in the mind.
>
> Consequencies:
>
> - UMO should have a list of languages of existing translations 
> displayed somewhere next to it. Clicking on on of those languages sets 
> the request language.
> - Translation operation also sets request language
>
> I will present the new sceen layout on this weekend. Technikally it 
> isn't very difficult, but some stored proc displaying the content 
> would now take 'request_language' parameter.
>
> 2008/8/28 Ilya A. Volynets-Evenbakh <ilya@total-knowledge.com 
> <mailto:ilya@total-knowledge.com>>
>
>     I think a better way is to have a "request" language, which could
>     be passed
>     from UMO to UMO for special cases like translation, but which
>     would disappear
>     once the translation process is no longer happening.
>
>     Reason: I have recently had an experience with translating a site
>     run by
>     a content management system (drupal). The system follows your way
>     (default language, user preferred language, current (session)
>     language).
>
>     Translating mistakes occur all the time, since end users keep
>     forgetting to
>     switch session language when creating a translation.
>
>     Thus - I want to make it very explicit which language the content
>     being created
>     is in.
>
>       Ilya.
>
>
>     Alexey Parshin wrote:
>
>         After implementing partial functionality of UMO edit, I've ran
>         into an interesting problem:
>
>         When user wants to translate a UMO, he (she) opens the UMO.
>         The UMO is shown in one of the languages of { preferred for
>         this user, default for this UMO }. If the user wants to
>         translate a UMO to a language that is different from {
>         preferred for this user }, he (she) selects a language from
>         combo box and clicks on the translate button. Then, the UMO
>         content in required language is automatically created.
>
>         The problem is, in order to see that UMO content (in required
>         language), one has to change own preferred language (in
>         account settings, not implemented yet but coming soon) to that
>         language. Same problem occurs if UMO has content in multiple
>         languages already, and user wants to see a particular language
>         content.
>
>         My suggested solution is to have a session active language
>         that is changed (in session) if users selects a content on
>         some language or clicks on 'Translate'. By default, that
>         language is set to preferred at the session start.
>
>         -- 
>         Alexey Parshin,
>         http://www.sptk.net
>
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> --
> Alexey Parshin,
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