Auto-detect locales

[shadowfax]

Hi,

It would be nice if the server automatically detected the user's locale settings.

I've changed the language resources files show it compiles to locale specific names, for example:

• vnclang_es.dll
• vnclang_en.dll
• ...

Next step... Where the resource DLL was being loaded I canhed the line

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hInstResDLL = LoadLibrary("vnclang_server.dll");

to

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	// Auto locales start
	LCID lcid;
	char langid[10];
	char dllPath[128];

	lcid = GetUserDefaultLCID();
	if (GetLocaleInfo(lcid, LOCALE_SISO639LANGNAME, langid, 9) != 0 ) {
		sprintf_s(dllPath, 128-1,"vnclang_%s.dll", langid);
		hInstResDLL = LoadLibrary(dllPath);
	}
	// Auto locales end

For Vista and above Microsoft recomends the use of the function GetUserDefaultLocaleName but couldn't get that one to compile, although the above code is running on Vista but not so sure it would run on Windows 7

This code comes in handy for SingleClick style applications or SC_PROMPT as you can send a single file with the locales you wish to support and the user will get his locale automatically.

Best regards

[Rudi De Vos]

We need to migrate to a text.txt instead of a dll.
To complex and dll loading isn't 100% secure.

A lot of work... all text in dialogs need to be overwriten.
Usual i use this
langid= GetUserDefaultLangID();
lang=PRIMARYLANGID(langid);
for auto detection.
(hexadecimal code)
text_09.txt

[shadowfax]

Wouldn't it be easier to use the ISO639 codes? I think they are a bit more intuitive than Language IDs. Maybe instead of plain text files an XML would come in handy... With a simple parse it would be quite simple to update.

It could also be used for configuration files instead of the INI files...

I think I'll take a look at it Maybe http://www.applied-mathematics.net/tools/xmlParser.html can be used, as it seems simple (Although I've only looked over it).

[redge]

shadowfax

good idea and hope you have an practical example of your XML file ISO639 translation.

[twagner]

hi shadowfax,
good idea, i think if rudi give a positive answer to integrate this solution in the uvnc-project,
it will be greate if you made an english example, so other uvnc-friend can use it for there work as base for translations in other languages, too

best wishes

twagner

[JDaus]

I'm working on a web based translation engine that will allow rudi to add a new entry, emails would be sent out to the translators, notifying of the update, translators then visit site, translate the entry.

developer can then export to ini or xml.

already have database designed, code partially written, but ran out of time.

I wanted to make it Into a joomla plugin to allow integration into the site & allow authentication via joomla db ...

I think this would make it easy to keep tabs on translations into the future, and make it easier for non technical people to help us translate.

[Rudi De Vos]

Sound good, maintaining the translations with a dll is a hell, need to replace by a txt file.
If we could use the same format as application input as the web output....all should be simpler