RE: Patch for lyx.org PayPal donate call

[Scott Kostyshak]

Comments? Can others reproduce?
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From: Scott Kostyshak
Sent: Monday, December 12, 2011 3:40 AM
To: lyx-devel@lists.lyx.org
Subject: Patch for lyx.org PayPal donate call

The donate PayPal button, accessed on http://www.lyx.org/Donate gave me a 
PayPal page in Norwegian. I don't know if others will be able to reproduce this 
because I think that PayPal tries to find out your language. If it fails to, I 
guess it defaults to the language of the destination of the payment. I would 
suggest this patch for all of the languages that lyx.org supports. The list of 
countries and their codes that should be passed to PayPal are located here: 
https://cms.paypal.com/us/cgi-bin/?cmd=_render-content&content_ID=developer/e_howto_api_nvp_country_codes

For English, the current html code for the PayPal call is
<form method="post" action="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr";>
<p>
<input type="hidden" value="_xclick" name="cmd">
<input type="hidden" value="donati...@lyx.org" name="business">
<input type="hidden" value="Optional Note" name="cn">
<input type="hidden" value="EUR" name="currency_code">
<input type="image" alt="Make payments with PayPal - it's fast, free and 
secure!" name="submit" src="https://www.paypal.com/images/x-click-but04.gif";>
</p>
</form>

I propose adding the following line:
<input type="hidden" value="US" name="lc">

so that the complete PayPal call would be
<form method="post" action="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr";>
<p>
<input type="hidden" value="_xclick" name="cmd">
<input type="hidden" value="donati...@lyx.org" name="business">
<input type="hidden" value="Optional Note" name="cn">
<input type="hidden" value="EUR" name="currency_code">
<input type="hidden" value="US" name="lc">
<input type="image" alt="Make payments with PayPal - it's fast, free and 
secure!" name="submit" src="https://www.paypal.com/images/x-click-but04.gif";>
</p>
</form>


Best,

Scott Kostyshak