Where does it look the user preference language?

[corand]

By default in Django, when a user chooses another language, next time the same user accesses to the web, will be redirected to that language. For example:

In "foo.com", user changes the language to "en", so it is redirected to "foo.com/en/".

Next time this user goes to "foo.com", will be redirected to "foo.com/en/". This is the behaviour I was expecting from your "SOLID_I18N_USE_REDIRECTS = True". But this is not happening.

Where are you looking the user preference language? Maybe in the browser preference rather than in the cookies?

Anyway, thanks, good job!

[corand]

Another example: If I go to your site "http://www.lexev.org/", and I change the language to "en". Don't you think that next time I access to "http://www.lexev.org/" I should be redirected to "http://www.lexev.org/en/"?

Thanks again ;)

[st4lk]

Hello, Andoni !

• 1st question (about "SOLID_I18N_USE_REDIRECTS = True").
  Can't reproduce the problem. Please precise, how do you implement the language switching. As it written in notes, you need to use set_language redirect view for language switching (form with method="POST"). Example site in this package also use this method: base.html. Have you tried the example site?
  So, this is what i do:
  • pip install solid-i18n (i have now Django==1.6.6 and solid-i18n==0.4.3 installed)
  • git clone git@github.com:st4lk/django-solid-i18n-urls.git
  • cd django-solid-i18n-urls/example
  • set SOLID_I18N_USE_REDIRECTS to True (it is set to False in repo) in example/settings.py.
  • python manage.py runserver
  • visit http://127.0.0.1:8000/
  • You see now english content. Click 'RU' button. You see now russian content, url starts with /ru/
  • visit http://127.0.0.1:8000/ again in new tab
  • you are redirected to /ru/
    Is this expected behaviour?
• 2nd question (about lexev.org).
  Well, that's a good idea. Currently it is set SOLID_I18N_USE_REDIRECTS = False in settings.py of this site. I choose not to use redirects at all because of some search engines (mostly http://yandex.ru), that works not very will with redirects. But it's worth thinking, maybe i'll change it.

[corand]

Finally decided to put the language prefix just on indivdiual post views (specially thinking on social shares). In the rest of the site I still follow with the Django default way. Anyway, thanks for the answer, I'll keep it in mind!

[st4lk]

Ok. So, the problem is still exists or we can close this issue?

[corand]

Close it. Thanks agian!