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/ HTTP::ClientDetect::Language

NAME

HTTP::ClientDetect::Language - Lookup the client's preferred language

VERSION

Version 0.03

SYNOPSIS


            

              
              
use HTTP::ClientDetect::Language;
my $lang_detect = HTTP::ClientDetect::Language->new(server_default => "en_US");
# inside a Dancer route
get '/detect' => sub {
    my $req = request;
    my $lang = $lang_detect->language($req);
}

ACCESSORS

server_default

The server_default should be set in the constructor and defaults to en_US. This will be always returned if the lookup fails

available_languages

Accessor to an arrayref of languages available on the server side. Please use the short version (de, not de_DE), otherwise the check will be too restrictive.

SUBROUTINES/METHODS

language($request_obj)

Return the preferred language of the request. The request object should an object which has the methods accept_language or header

From http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec14.html:


            

              
              
The Accept-Language request-header field is similar to Accept, but
restricts the set of natural languages that are preferred as a
response to the request. Language tags are defined in section 3.10.
      Accept-Language = "Accept-Language" ":"
                        1#( language-range [ ";" "q" "=" qvalue ] )
      language-range  = ( ( 1*8ALPHA *( "-" 1*8ALPHA ) ) | "*" )
Each language-range MAY be given an associated quality value which
represents an estimate of the user's preference for the languages
specified by that range. The quality value defaults to "q=1". For
example,
      Accept-Language: da, en-gb;q=0.8, en;q=0.7
would mean: "I prefer Danish, but will accept British English and
other types of English." A language-range matches a language-tag if
it exactly equals the tag, or if it exactly equals a prefix of the
tag such that the first tag character following the prefix is "-".
The special range "*", if present in the Accept-Language field,
matches every tag not matched by any other range present in the
Accept-Language field.
     Note: This use of a prefix matching rule does not imply that
     language tags are assigned to languages in such a way that it is
     always true that if a user understands a language with a certain
     tag, then this user will also understand all languages with tags
     for which this tag is a prefix. The prefix rule simply allows the
     use of prefix tags if this is the case.
The language quality factor assigned to a language-tag by the
Accept-Language field is the quality value of the longest language-
range in the field that matches the language-tag. If no language-
range in the field matches the tag, the language quality factor
assigned is 0. If no Accept-Language header is present in the
request, the server
SHOULD assume that all languages are equally acceptable. If an
Accept-Language header is present, then all languages which are
assigned a quality factor greater than 0 are acceptable.
 It might be contrary to the privacy expectations of the user to send
 an Accept-Language header with the complete linguistic preferences
 of the user in every request

browser_languages($request)

This method returns the parsed and sorted list of language preferences set in the browser, when the first element has higher priority.

language_short($request_obj)

Return the short language version (i.e.), the language name without the country part.

check_language_name

Returns a normalized version of the language name, lower case for the language, upper case for the country. Undef it was not possible to validate it.

AUTHOR

Marco Pessotto, <melmothx at gmail.com>

BUGS

Please report any bugs or feature requests to bug-interchange6-plugin-autodetect at rt.cpan.org, or through the web interface at http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/ReportBug.html?Queue=HTTP-ClientDetect. I will be notified, and then you'll automatically be notified of progress on your bug as I make changes.

SUPPORT

You can find documentation for this module with the perldoc command.


            

              
              
perldoc HTTP::ClientDetect::Language

You can also look for information at:

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

LICENSE AND COPYRIGHT

Copyright 2013 Marco Pessotto.

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of either: the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; or the Artistic License.

See http://dev.perl.org/licenses/ for more information.