Closed Bug 731215 Opened 12 years ago Closed 11 years ago

investigate: use django locale-prefixed URL's

Categories

(developer.mozilla.org Graveyard :: Localization, defect, P2)

Product:
developer.mozilla.org Graveyard
Component:
Localization
Platform:
x86
macOS
Type:
defect

Tracking

(Not tracked)

Status:
RESOLVED WONTFIX

People

(Reporter: groovecoder, Unassigned)

References

Details

django 1.4.1 has built-in support for locale-prefixed URLs and translatable URLs, including reverse()-type helpers that are aware of this.
Priority: -- → P1
Whiteboard: u=developer c=infrastructure p= → u=developer c=infrastructure s=2012-06-05 p=
Whiteboard: u=developer c=infrastructure s=2012-06-05 p= → u=developer c=infrastructure s= p=
Version: Kuma → unspecified
Component: Website → Landing pages
Priority: P1 → P2
Are we using this already?
Component: Landing pages → Localization
Flags: needinfo?(lcrouch)
Whiteboard: u=developer c=infrastructure s= p=
deflecting to ubernostrum.
Flags: needinfo?(lcrouch) → needinfo?(jbennett)
We should not attempt to use this right now. Django's current locale-prefixed URL support is not compatible with what we need:

* It has issues with mixed-case language identifiers, so "en-US" may not be accepted, for example (needing "en-us" instead).

* It has issues with some language/country combinations. The one I know of right now is one we don't use ("de-AT"), but I'd want to stay away until we know that's fixed.

So for now probably best to just stay on our own homegrown prefixing middleware, though might be worth investigating whether the code that's now in Django -- which is not a middleware, and instead does the work at the level of URL resolution -- is something we could build a cleaner version on.
Flags: needinfo?(jbennett)
Going to close this one out. We can open a separate bug for the work James mentions in comment 3 as needed.
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 11 years ago
Resolution: --- → WONTFIX
Product: developer.mozilla.org → developer.mozilla.org Graveyard
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