Hi all,
I am a new comer for contributing the code for MediaWiki.
(don't mind if my English is not good enough) I am having a proposed changes for the function headElement() function, which accepts various language while in different language code. The main propose of this changes is to display the correct language/font correctly. This problem is already exists in the Chinese wikis, which the language is in Chinese, however the browsers (at least IE and Firefox browsers) are detected as a Simplified Chinese webpage.
The problem have been discussed in its local Wikipedia pages: http://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:%E4%BA%92%E5%8A%A9%E5%AE%A2%E6%A0%88/...
http://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:%E7%B9%81%E7%AE%80%E4%BD%93%E8%BD%AC%...
http://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:%E4%BA%92%E5%8A%A9%E5%AE%A2%E6%A0%88/...
(All these webpages are from Chinese Wikipedia, in Chinese language) And according to those pages, the users generally have a consensus to having a change of display the language/font when it's in Traditional Chinese.
The display language has been tested under Internet Explorer and Firefox, the results have been shown below:
Key: IE = Internet Explorer FF = Mozilla Firefox SC = Simplified Chinese TC = Traditional Chinese TC-HKSCS = Traditional Chinese (Hong Kong Suppmelmentary Character Set ! = There's some problem when displaying the language of the webpage, the language is incorrect
zh: SC(IE), SC(FF) zh-hant: TC(IE), TC(FF) zh-hans: TC(IE)!, SC(FF) zh-cn: SC(IE), SC(FF) zh-tw: TC(IE), TC(FF) zh-hk: SC(IE)!, TC-HKSCS(FF) zh-mo: SC(IE)!, SC(FF)! zh-sg: SC(IE), SC(FF)
however, the Internet Explorer browser does not perfectly supporting the zh-hans and zh-hant tags respectively. So to fix this language/font problem, we need a several PHP scripts to display that properly. the steps are indicated below:
1. Detects if a user is logged on or not, if so do the display language-code check against the language value in user perferences; 2. If the user is not logged on, do the display language-code check against the HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE value; 3. If the browser does not support the HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE (for very old browser only). Automatically fallback to global language.
For display language code checking: 1. Detect is that a non zh-cn ot zh-tw installation, if so return the global language; 2. Do the match for the language against several language-codes, if matches return the display language code; 3. When none of them above matches, then automatically fallback to the global language.
(this part of code can also performed besides the Chinese language)
For solving this problem, I've wrote a piece of code to there, however, there's no idea which file are better inserting these pieces of code, or in a seprate file. After I have had suggestions from here, I will put my code into Bugzilla to do the checkout of my piece of code.
thanks :)
Shinjiman
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