[OSGeo-Discuss] Re: [Meteo.DWG] multi-lingual WMS-legends [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

[Bruce Bannerman]

Fyi,

Thanks Jeff,

Bruce


On 28/05/11 12:06 AM, "Jeff de La Beaujardiere" <Jeff.deLaBeaujardiere at noaa.gov> wrote:

There is already an HTTP mechanism for language negotiation: the
Accept-Language header described at
http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec14.html#sec14.4 and
elsewhere.
OGC and OSGeo should not invent another mechanism for this.

Regards,
Jeff DLB
--

Jeff de La Beaujardière, PhD
NOAA Data Management Architect
NESDIS/OSD/TPIO





On 2011-05-24 18:14, Bruce Bannerman wrote:
> An issue from OSGeo-Discuss that may be of relevance here as well.
>
> Do we have a proposed way of handling this?
>
> Bruce
>
>
>
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>     *From: *"Steven M. Ottens" <steven at minst.net>
>     *Reply-To: *OSGeo Discussions <discuss at lists.osgeo.org>
>     *Date: *Tue, 24 May 2011 19:51:44 +1000
>     *To: *OSGeo Discussions Discussions <discuss at lists.osgeo.org>
>     *Subject: *[OSGeo-Discuss] multi-lingual WMS-legends
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>
>      Hi all,
>
>     I'm currently building a multi-lingual Web-GIS application. One of the
>     requirements is that the legends of the maps are multi-lingual.
>     E.g. if
>     the chosen language is English, the legend will say 'forest', whereas
>     when the chosen language is Dutch it will say 'bos'. So no need to
>     have
>     all the languages in one image, using something like &lang=en is
>     fine by me.
>
>     I've done a quick look in the mapserver documentation but it doesn't
>     appear to support &lang for generating legends. Nor does the WMS 1.3.0
>     specification for that matter.
>
>     Has anyone tried to do such a thing?
>
>     regards,
>     Steven
>
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