8525 - Strres shall support more robust fallback scheme

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 8188

(Core :: Internationalization, defect, P3)

Description

[tao]

There is no fallback mechanism in the current implementation. I have patches
in my tree to enable a simple, "lang_country" -> "lang" -> "", fallback.

However, we may want to consider a little more sophiscated scheme such as
"user's locale" -> "default application locale" -> "none" type fallback. For
example, The strres class is provided with "fr_CA" and the application locale
is "en-US", then the fallback path will be

 fr_CA -> fr -> en_US -> en -> none

Comment 1

[tao]

I had checked in a patch to perform the "fr_CA ->fr->none" part of the
fallback.

See bug

	http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8188


for details.

Comment 2

[tao]

This is not a M8 show stopper. We need more discussion on how the mechanism
shall work.

Comment 3

[tao]

non show stopper-> M11

Comment 4

[tao]

We'll embed the locale name in the URL path instead of filename. See bug 8188.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 8188 ***

Comment 5

[Jay Patel [:jay]]

verified dup