Re: [ubuntu-web] Announcing the Ubuntu.com Website Localization Project

2010-03-19 Thread Stas Sușcov
În data de Vi, 19-03-2010 la 10:35 -0500, Matthew Nuzum a scris: > On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 8:10 AM, Jamal wrote: > On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 11:00 AM, Stas Sușcov > wrote: > Regarding client side `HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE`: > try this in your browser: >

Re: Announcing the Ubuntu.com Website Localization Project

2010-03-19 Thread Matthew Nuzum
On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 8:10 AM, Jamal wrote: > On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 11:00 AM, Stas Sușcov wrote: > >> Regarding client side `HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE`: >> try this in your browser: >> --- >> javascript:alert(navigator.language); >> --- >> worked for chromium and ff. >> > > I mentioned before tha

Re: Announcing the Ubuntu.com Website Localization Project

2010-03-19 Thread Jamal
On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 11:00 AM, Stas Sușcov wrote: > Regarding client side `HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE`: > try this in your browser: > --- > javascript:alert(navigator.language); > --- > worked for chromium and ff. > I mentioned before that you can get the user's language using Javascript. The probl

Re: [ubuntu-web] Announcing the Ubuntu.com Website Localization Project

2010-03-18 Thread Stas Sușcov
În data de Jo, 18-03-2010 la 11:26 -0500, Matthew Nuzum a scris: > (would you include ubuntu-webs...@lists.canonical.com in replies? I'll > make sure your messages get through) > > It shows en-us on my PC but my preferred lang is en-gb. > Did you get the same result by using the php tool[1] provi

Re: Announcing the Ubuntu.com Website Localization Project

2010-03-18 Thread Jesper Jarlskov
> I agree that geoip is not a good solution because I really dislike how > some of my favourite websites change to a different language when I'm > in a different country. I wish I could magically learn Spanish simply > by visiting Spain for a few days. :-) geoip is also useless when people use pr

Re: Announcing the Ubuntu.com Website Localization Project

2010-03-18 Thread Matthew Nuzum
(would you include ubuntu-webs...@lists.canonical.com in replies? I'll make sure your messages get through) It shows en-us on my PC but my preferred lang is en-gb. What we're looking for should look something like: en-gb, en-us;q=0.8, en;q=0.5 I agree that geoip is not a good solution because I

Re: Announcing the Ubuntu.com Website Localization Project

2010-03-18 Thread Stas Sușcov
În data de Jo, 18-03-2010 la 10:41 -0500, Eivar Montenegro Mosquera a scris: > > > On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 10:00, Stas Sușcov wrote: > În data de Jo, 18-03-2010 la 09:11 -0500, Matthew Nuzum a > scris: > > It's nice to meet you Aron. I've been to your site many >

Re: Announcing the Ubuntu.com Website Localization Project

2010-03-18 Thread Eivar Montenegro Mosquera
Good day, > >> Regarding client side `HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE`: >> try this in your browser: >> --- >> javascript:alert(navigator.language); >> --- >> worked for chromium and ff. >> > Do not work for ie 8, it shows a message "undefined". > > This script works on internet explorer 8 and firefoxf 3.6

Re: Announcing the Ubuntu.com Website Localization Project

2010-03-18 Thread Eivar Montenegro Mosquera
On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 10:00, Stas Sușcov wrote: > În data de Jo, 18-03-2010 la 09:11 -0500, Matthew Nuzum a scris: > > It's nice to meet you Aron. I've been to your site many times and > > wondered how you did that. > > > > This project that Chris is leading will allow people who prefer > > Chi

Re: Announcing the Ubuntu.com Website Localization Project

2010-03-18 Thread Stas Sușcov
În data de Jo, 18-03-2010 la 09:11 -0500, Matthew Nuzum a scris: > It's nice to meet you Aron. I've been to your site many times and > wondered how you did that. > > This project that Chris is leading will allow people who prefer > Chinese but come to the English website learn that there are resou

Re: Announcing the Ubuntu.com Website Localization Project

2010-03-18 Thread Matthew Nuzum
It's nice to meet you Aron. I've been to your site many times and wondered how you did that. This project that Chris is leading will allow people who prefer Chinese but come to the English website learn that there are resources in their language. So they may see a text message like this at the top

Re: Announcing the Ubuntu.com Website Localization Project

2010-03-17 Thread Aron Xu
Hi, We've already had a running localized website: http://www.ubuntu.org.cn , it seems to be based on python and can sync the content from the main site. Hope this information can help, the site maintainer is oneleaf at gmail.com. Regards, Aron Xu On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 3:32 AM, Chris Johnston

Re: Announcing the Ubuntu.com Website Localization Project

2010-03-17 Thread Dmitry Agafonov
2010/3/17 Chris Johnston : > Good Day; And good news! ... > I can't do all of this myself, so I am going to need help from the Ubuntu > community. At this point, I need some assistance with the technical side of > the project. I need a few people to create the script that will detect the > users p

Re: Announcing the Ubuntu.com Website Localization Project

2010-03-17 Thread Savvas Radevic
Hi Chris, I already have a "working" version of a multi-lingual php-based website[0]. I say "working", because it's a website pack, more or less centralized to work for ubuntu-cy. I don't know if it's good from a security point of view (I surely hope so), nor if it is suitable for the cause you n

Announcing the Ubuntu.com Website Localization Project

2010-03-17 Thread Chris Johnston
Good Day; It is my pleasure to announce a new project to better the Ubuntu.com website experience, specifically for users who prefer a language other than English. The new project, called Website Localization [1] will put a short (4-5 word) message on any www.Ubuntu.com we