[Catalyst] Multi-language and REST

[Knut-Olav Hoven]

On Friday 25 April 2008 14:44:38 Ian Docherty wrote:
> I have been pondering how to take an existing Catalyst application and
> make it multi-lingual.
>
> I would prefer to use a RESTful method, so this would translate /foo/bar
> to /en/foo/bar or /fr/foo/bar (for English and French respectively).

The elegang solution is to make use of the request header Accept-Language, but 
not many users know how to change this setting in their browsers.

http://www.w3.org/Protocols/HTTP/HTRQ_Headers.html#z12

>
> The problem as I see it is how to do this. I don't want to move all my
> controllers, e.g. MyApp::Controller::Foo::Bar to
> MyApp::Controller::Lang::Foo::Bar
>
> What other alternatives are there?
>
> Regards
> Ian
>
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