[Solar-talk] Solar_Locale & ISO 3166 + ISO 639 + RFC1766

[Dmytro Konstantinov]

Hi guys,

Just spent a day looking at the way Solar_Locale works and trying to  
integrate that functionality into a multi-lingual app that I'm  
writing. At first I thought it will be really easy but then I came  
across an interesting thing... (If this came up before please point me  
to the right place!)

I use "xml:lang" attribute to define the language of the page that is  
displayed and at first I thought placing the output of Solar_Locale- 
 >getCode() as it's value would do the trick. However, as it turned  
out, Solar' locale is a bit different to that defined by RFC1766 and  
expected by XHTML 1.1. This leads me to a few basic question:

1. Am I right in thinking that Solar_Locale->getCode() returns a  
locale of the following format: [language code as defined by ISO 639  
alpha-2]_[country code as defined by ISO 3166 alpha-2]?

2. What is the advantage in separating language code from country  
codes by an "_" [underscore] instead of a "-" [dash], as defined by  
RFC 1766?

Also, while we are on the subject of locale, what does everyone think  
about adding  Solar_Locale->setCountryCode(), Solar_Locale- 
 >getLanguageCode() and Solar_Locale->setLanguageCode()? This way it  
would be possible to adjust current locale based on the country or  
language of origin, without having to manually rebuilding the entire  
locale string. For example, this might come in handy when dealing  
with: en-US vs. en-GB, es-ES vs. es-BR / en-CA vs. fr-CA, etc.

Thanks guys,

Dima