[jira] Updated: (FOR-580) Default language in forrest.properties

["David Crossley (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

     [ http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FOR-580?page=all ]

David Crossley updated FOR-580:
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    Component: Internationalisation (i18n)
                   (was: Core operations)

> Default language in forrest.properties
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>
>          Key: FOR-580
>          URL: http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FOR-580
>      Project: Forrest
>         Type: New Feature
>   Components: Internationalisation (i18n)
>     Versions: 0.8-dev
>     Reporter: Sjur N. Moshagen

>
> When developing a multilingual site, it would be beneficial if the default/fallback language could be configured from forrest.properties. This would imply that, given 'no' as fallback, one of the following two scenarios would be true:
> 1)
> files: index.xml, index_es.xml, index_en.xml
> Requests for both index.html and index_no.html would generate the returned page from index.xml
> 2)
> files: index_no.xml, index_es.xml, index_en.xml
> Requests for both index.html and index_no.html would generate the returned page from index_no.xml
> In both cases the end result would be that there would be no need to maintain more than one file for the fallback language.
> I would prefer the second alternative just for the sake of symmetry and equality of languages. It has the additional benefit of making it very easy to change the default/fallback language - just change the forrest.properties setting. The second alternative would also make it easier to create a language override menu, as all the available languages/locales would be encoded explicitly in the file name.

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