[Catalyst] Language selection in URLs

[Octavian Râsnita]

        From: "Bill Moseley" <moseley at hank.org>
> What's your preferred approach to specifying a language tag in a URL?  Is
> there strong argument for one over the other?
>
> http://example.com/en_us/path/to/some/index.html # language prefix
>
> http://example.com/path/to/some/index.html?lang=en_us

I prefer the former way because the URL looks nicer.
(Not a very "strong" argument:)

> Are pages in different languages different resources or different versions
> of the same resource?

In most cases I think it is the same content with a different presentation 
style, language...

> Obviously, the prefix is easier if you use relative URLs, but uri_for 
> makes
> adding the query parameter easy.  Although, probably could argue that the
> prefix approach is more efficient than wrapping uri_for for every 
> generated
> link.

There is an example on the Catalyst wiki for overriding prepare_path() in 
order to use urls like /en/path/to/another/file.html without needing to 
change all controllers.
Octavian