[Catalyst] Re: Language selection in URLs

[Fayland Lam]

why shouldn't you use domain as the part of the language? like 
en.example.com, cn.example.com and something like that?

Thanks.

Octavian Râsnita wrote:
>        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
> 
> 
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