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and session based locales

Hi,

I am currently using the Jakarta STL implementation in a Model 2
servlet/jsp application. 

My locale choice needs to be decoupled from the default, so I am doing
this in the controller servlet and setting a session based locale using:
	Config.set(session, Config.FMT_LOCALE, loc);

this works perfectly with PropertyResouceBundle based <fmt:bundle>, and
<fmt:message> tags in a given page. However, in the same page where this
works, the <formatDate> tag only seems to output english, rather than
the german i have configured the locale to. The tag i am using is below

<fmt:formatDate value="${thedate}" type="both" dateStyle="LONG"
timeStyle="LONG" />

Any suggestions on what i could do to fix this ?

thanks,

Bradley




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Re: and session based locales

Posted by Shawn Bayern <ba...@essentially.net>.
On 6 Aug 2002, Bradley Schatz wrote:

> Thanks Shawn,
> 
> Indeed the problem is in my understanding of German and lack of testing
> rather than a fault in the taglib. 

Great!  By the way, this part of my response made me laugh as I was
looking it over:

> > Hi Bradley.  It seems to work for me.  Is it possible that the German
> > locale just doesn't have the LONG/LONG date format that you expect?  For
> > instance, I get
> > 
> >      6. August 2002 10:09:49 EDT
> > 
> > for Locale.GERMAN, as contrasted with
> > 
> >      August 6, 2002 10:11:16 AM EDT

You can see it took precisely 1.45 minutes for me to switch the locale and
reload the page.  Seems like an awfully long time. :-)

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Re: and session based locales

Posted by Bradley Schatz <br...@greystate.com>.
Thanks Shawn,

Indeed the problem is in my understanding of German and lack of testing
rather than a fault in the taglib. 

Thanks again,

bradley



On Tue, 2002-08-06 at 15:13, Shawn Bayern wrote:
> On 6 Aug 2002, Bradley Schatz wrote:
> 
> > 	Config.set(session, Config.FMT_LOCALE, loc);
> > 
> > this works perfectly with PropertyResouceBundle based <fmt:bundle>, and
> > <fmt:message> tags in a given page. However, in the same page where this
> > works, the <formatDate> tag only seems to output english, rather than
> > the german i have configured the locale to. The tag i am using is below
> > 
> > <fmt:formatDate value="${thedate}" type="both" dateStyle="LONG"
> > timeStyle="LONG" />
> > 
> > Any suggestions on what i could do to fix this ?
> 
> Hi Bradley.  It seems to work for me.  Is it possible that the German
> locale just doesn't have the LONG/LONG date format that you expect?  For
> instance, I get
> 
>      6. August 2002 10:09:49 EDT
> 
> for Locale.GERMAN, as contrasted with
> 
>      August 6, 2002 10:11:16 AM EDT
> 
> for my default (US English) locale.
> 
> The eighth month in German is indeed written "August," as in English.  
> Try it with October ("Oktober" in German) just to be sure.
> 
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> Shawn Bayern
> "JSTL in Action"   http://www.jstlbook.com
> 
> 
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Re: and session based locales

Posted by Shawn Bayern <ba...@essentially.net>.
On 6 Aug 2002, Bradley Schatz wrote:

> 	Config.set(session, Config.FMT_LOCALE, loc);
> 
> this works perfectly with PropertyResouceBundle based <fmt:bundle>, and
> <fmt:message> tags in a given page. However, in the same page where this
> works, the <formatDate> tag only seems to output english, rather than
> the german i have configured the locale to. The tag i am using is below
> 
> <fmt:formatDate value="${thedate}" type="both" dateStyle="LONG"
> timeStyle="LONG" />
> 
> Any suggestions on what i could do to fix this ?

Hi Bradley.  It seems to work for me.  Is it possible that the German
locale just doesn't have the LONG/LONG date format that you expect?  For
instance, I get

     6. August 2002 10:09:49 EDT

for Locale.GERMAN, as contrasted with

     August 6, 2002 10:11:16 AM EDT

for my default (US English) locale.

The eighth month in German is indeed written "August," as in English.  
Try it with October ("Oktober" in German) just to be sure.

-- 
Shawn Bayern
"JSTL in Action"   http://www.jstlbook.com


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