How to have localization follow browser language

07-10-2008 6:44 PM |

I am developing a Silverlight 2 application.

I have been able to embed multiple string resources into my .xap file.  I have found how I can select which language to display by adding:

<param name="culture" value="de" />
<param name="uiculture" value="de" />

To my <object> section in html.

What I would like to do is have the culture and uiculture follow the language(s) configured in my browser (auto detect).

Does anyone know how I can do that with javascript?  Or straight html?

Thanks for the help,

Matt

Re: How to have localization follow browser language

07-11-2008 4:07 AM |

Please see http://silverlight.net/forums/p/14007/50506.aspx#50506

<param name="culture" value="auto" />
<param name="uiculture" value="auto" />

Re: How to have localization follow browser language

07-11-2008 11:12 AM |

 I am using Silverlight 2 Beta 2.

<param name="culture" value="auto" />
<param name="uiculture" value="auto" /> 

This does not work for me.  I am using Firefox and set one and only one language, de.  My app still showed en-US as my culture and UICulture.

Any other ideas?

Thanks,

Matt

Re: How to have localization follow browser language

07-12-2008 2:38 PM |

That is strange i just tried it now as well and it doesnt seem to work either, maybe a bug in beta 2. It was meant to be working in beta2.

As a workaround you could add it dynamiclly on the server side eg:

<%@ Page Language="C#" AutoEventWireup="true" UICulture="auto" Culture="auto" %><%@ import namespace="System.Threading" %>

Re: How to have localization follow browser language

09-14-2009 1:29 AM |

Thanks to all for their quick and kind response, the problem is solved!