34954 - Need a mechanism to convert (language, country) pair to accept-lang

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(Core :: Internationalization, defect, P3)

Description

[tao]

In certain language tags used in Accept-Language, the country code are often
omitted. We need a mechanim to convert them back and forth to the uniform
language-country pair to match the current locale name pair used under chrome
directory and the (Language, Country) information gathered during Activation
process.

An alternative would be to allow the omission of the country code...

Comment 1

[Frank Tang]

I don't think we will have any solution to "convert back and forth"

Comment 2

[tao]

How about using a table like the locale alias to map a given key to a value.
For example, in a property file:

	# if country code is omitted.
	ja=ja-JP
	ja-JP=ja
	en=en-US

When the country code is omitted, pass lang to get lang-COUNTRY. When both 
present, pass lang-COUNTRY to get lang.

Of course, this is a quick hack and the caller needs to know what he needs. A
pair of sample APIs are

	getPairByLang(lang);
	getLangByPair(pair);

Also, we need to pre-populate the table with a list of locale supported by
NetCenter.

Comments?

Reassign to myself

Comment 3

[tao]

These bugs are prerequisites of our beta2 localization plan. Add "beta2" 
to keyword.

Comment 4

[tao]

We are using "intl.content.langcode" to hold the lang-country info from the
Activation UI for now. Therefore, we won't need this bug fix in the near future.
Will close this bug if we decide to use this pref instead of accept-lang.

Move to M18. 

Comment 5

[tao]

During Activation, we collect the language and country info from users. For
Japanese users in Japan, the language code pair, "language-country", would be
"ja-JP". However, some web servers recognize Japanese locale as "ja" only 
(omitting the country code, "JP").  If we use "ja-JP" to update the user's 
Accept-Lanugage prefs, the user won't get correct Japanese content from 
certain web servers.

Therefore, we need to convert "ja-JP" to "ja" and use "ja" to update the 
Accept-Language.

Comment 6

[Michael La Guardia]

marking nsbeta2+ per pdt.

Comment 7

[tao]

fix checked in. 

IQA, 


Please contact me for verifying the bug. I don't have the test JS script 
checked in.



Thanks

Comment 8

[msanz]

changing QA contact to Tao

Comment 9

[tao]

Verified