Returns the MIME charset name corresponding to the current connection's locale.

Returns:

IANA MIME character set name

Author:

Lars Pind <lars@pinds.com>

Testcases:

test_get_locales

Get the language for this request, perhaps for a given package instance.

Switches:

-package_id (optional)

The package for which you want to get the language (used only when, no locale is provided).

-user_id (optional)

The user_id for whom you want to get the language (used only when, no locale is provided).

-site_wide (optional, boolean)

Set this if you want to get the site-wide language (used only when, no locale is provided).

-iso6392 (optional, boolean)

Set this if you want to force the iso-639-2 code

-locale (optional)

obtain language from provided locale

Returns:

3 chars language code if iso6392 is set, left part of locale otherwise

Testcases:

test_get_locales

Get the locale for this request, perhaps for a given package instance.

Switches:

-package_id (optional)

The package for which you want to get the locale.

-site_wide (optional, boolean)

Set this if you want to get the site-wide locale.

-user_id (optional)

Testcases:

test_get_locales

Get this connection's timezone. This is the user timezone, if set, otherwise the system timezone.

Returns:

a timezone name from acs-reference package (e.g., Asia/Tokyo, America/New_York)

Testcases:

lang_test__lc_procs, set_get_timezone, set_timezone_not_logged_in, lc_time_fmt_Z_timezone, a_foreign_calendar_user

Return all enabled locales in the system in a format suitable for the options argument of a form.

Author:

Lars Pind

Testcases:

test_get_locales

Return all locales defined in the system. Per default only the enabled locales are returned. When the optional flag "-all" is specified, all defined locales are returned. This value is cached per thread and needs currently a server restart, when the system locales are changed.

Switches:

-all (optional, boolean)

Author:

Peter Marklund

Testcases:

test_get_locales, xowiki_test_cases

Get system language setting for a given package instance.

Switches:

-package_id (optional)

The package for which you want to get the language setting.

-site_wide (optional, boolean)

Set this if you want to get the site-wide language setting.

-iso6392 (optional, boolean)

Set this if you want to force iso-639-2 code (3 digits)

Returns:

3 chars language code if iso6392 is set, left part of locale otherwise

Testcases:

test_get_locales

Get system locale setting for a given package instance.

Switches:

-package_id (optional)

The package for which you want to get the locale setting.

-site_wide (optional, boolean)

Set this if you want to get the site-wide locale setting.

Testcases:

dt_localized_procs, locale__test_system_package_setting, test_get_locales, create_test_items, create_composite_test_item, create_folder_with_page, create_workflow_with_instance, link_tests, path_resolve, create_form_with_form_instance, create_form_with_numeric, form_validate

Enables or disables a locale.

Switches:

-locale (required)

-enabled_p (required)

Should be t or f

Author:

Peter Marklund

Testcases:

lang_test__lc_procs, locale__test_lang_conn_browser_locale, locale_language_fallback, upgrade

Parameters:

package_id (required)

Returns:

empty string if not use_package_level_locales_p, or the package locale from apm_packages table.

Testcases:

test_get_locales

Set system locale setting for a given package instance, or the site-wide system locale.

Switches:

-package_id (optional)

The package for which you want to set the locale setting, if you want to set system setting for one package only. Leave blank for site-wide setting.

Parameters:

locale (required)

The new locale that you want to use as your system locale.

Testcases:

dt_localized_procs, locale__test_system_package_setting, test_get_locales, link_tests, slot_interactions, path_resolve

Tell OpenACS what timezone we think it's running in.

Parameters:

timezone (required)

name from acs-reference package (e.g., Asia/Tokyo, America/New_York)

Testcases:

lang_test__lc_procs, set_get_timezone

Get the site-wide system locale setting.

Testcases:

locale__test_system_package_setting, ad_context_bar_multirow

Ask OpenACS what it thinks our timezone is.

Returns:

a timezone name from acs-reference package (e.g., Asia/Tokyo, America/New_York)

Testcases:

set_get_timezone, set_timezone_not_logged_in, test_timezone_offset, a_foreign_calendar_user

Returns:

number of hours to subtract from local (database) time to get UTC

Testcases:

test_timezone_offset

Returns whether we're using package level locales.

Testcases:

test_get_locales

Get user language preference for a given package instance. This preliminary implementation only has one site-wide setting, though.

Switches:

-package_id (optional)

The package for which you want to get the language setting.

-user_id (optional)

The user we wish to get the language for, defaults to connection user.

-site_wide (optional, boolean)

Set this if you want to get the site-wide language setting.

-iso6392 (optional, boolean)

Set this if you want to force iso-639-2 code (3 digits)

Returns:

3 chars language code if iso6392 is set, left part of locale otherwise

Testcases:

test_get_locales

Get user locale preference for a given package instance.

Switches:

-package_id (optional)

The package for which you want to get the locale preference.

-site_wide (optional, boolean)

Set this if you want to get the site-wide locale preference.

-user_id (optional)

Set this to the user you want to get the locale of, defaults to current user.

Testcases:

test_get_locales, create_form_with_numeric

Get the user's preferred package level locale for a package given by its package id.

Switches:

-user_id (optional)

Parameters:

package_id (required)

Testcases:

test_get_locales

Set user locale setting for a given package instance.

Switches:

-package_id (optional)

The package for which you want to set the locale setting, if you want to set it for a specific package, as opposed to a site-wide setting.

-user_id (optional)

Parameters:

locale (required)

The new locale that you want to use as your system locale.

Testcases:

lang_test__lang_user_site_wide_locale, test_get_locales, create_form_with_numeric

Set the user's timezone setting.

Parameters:

timezone (required)

name from acs-reference package (e.g., Asia/Tokyo, America/New_York)

Testcases:

set_get_timezone, set_timezone_not_logged_in

Get the user's preferred site-wide locale.

Switches:

-user_id (optional)

Testcases:

lang_test__lang_user_site_wide_locale

Get the user's timezone. Returns the empty string if the user has no timezone set.

Returns:

a timezone name from acs-reference package (e.g., Asia/Tokyo, America/New_York)

Testcases:

set_get_timezone