Get Locale country and language codes

Thanks, but it is not quite what I am looking for.

The problem with the functions I have seen is that they return locale name as it is represented in ColdFusion (ie English (US) ). But what I am looking for the ISO language and country codes.
http://java.sun.com/javase/6/docs/api/java/util/Locale.html#getCountry()

> oops, didn't realize it was you "cfsearching". you probably already knew that stuff.

No problem. Thanks for that though. I was trying to get the language and country codes for the current request. Before I dipped into java, I wanted to be sure there was not a CF function I overlooked. I ended up doing this:

<cfscript>
variables.locale = getPageContext().getResponse().getLocale();
if ( not structKeyExists(variables, "locale") ) {
variables.locale = getPageContext().getRequest().getLocale();
}
// this should return the default locale
WriteOutput("language="& variables.locale.getLanguage() &"<br>");
WriteOutput("country="& variables.locale.getCountry() &"<hr>");

SetLocale("es_ES");

variables.locale = getPageContext().getResponse().getLocale();
if ( not structKeyExists(variables, "locale") ) {
variables.locale = getPageContext().getRequest().getLocale();
}
// this should return the current locale
WriteOutput("language="& variables.locale.getLanguage() &"<br>");
WriteOutput("country="& variables.locale.getCountry() &"<hr>");
</cfscript>

> that snippet only shows "en" for my server's locale (when it's actually en_US).

On my server it displays:
(default)
en
US
==========
(after setLocale)
es
ES

Are you saying it is displaying something different for you? (Bear with me, I have had very little sleep ;-)

> yup. default is en_US. your snippet shows just "en" for that default
> (once the cf locale is changed it shows es_ES as expected).

Weird. But thanks for the "heads up". I will use the java default instead.

> what are you trying to do anyway?

I needed to create a customizable chart with webcharts. To set the locale, its model requires the iso codes.

> I needed to create a customizable chart with webcharts. To set
> the locale, its model requires the iso codes.

... So inside my function, I needed to determine the current locale if one was not specified.

> i see. what happens if you don't set a locale? does it use
> the server default anyway?

If I do not set/change the Locale explicitly, it uses the server default from what I can tell. (ie en_US)

PaulH wrote:
> probably a dumb question

Not a dumb question. There are few things going on.

Short story, I needed to customize the display of dates in a gantt chart on-the-fly. Webcharts uses the server locale by default. To change it, you pass in the desired locale information via xml. That xml is fed into the charting component and used to generate the final chart (That is why I needed the iso codes). That part works fine.

(ie
<locale lang="es" country="ES" variant=""/>
)

> , then why bother finding the server locale > & setting it "again"?


Since the webcharts documentation is a bit sparse on the topic of localization, I temporarily changed the locale to better understand its behavior and debug another issue. The issue relates to tool tips. For whatever reason, webcharts correctly formats the chart labels with whatever locale I select. But ... when I try and format dates inside a tool tip, webcharts always uses the default locale for formatting.

For example if I my xml contains:

<locale lang="es" country="ES" variant=""/>

The results are:
Chart labels display (spanish):: *** lunes, martes, miercoles, jueves, ...
Tool tips display (english):: *** monday, tuesday, wednesday, thursday, ...

You get the same results using the webcharts utility. The results are obviously wrong, so I am wondering if I stupidly overlooked a property or something ..

The full code I used is here:
http://cfsearching.blogspot.com/2008/11/coldfusion-8-creating-simple-gantt.html

> i don't see anything to set locales for tooltips (are these popups??).
> any chance of substituting a function like flex?

Neither do I. Yes, if you view source they are just html that displays on mouseover. The values are formatted as en_US, so clearly webcharts is forgetting to take locale into account when it generates them.

> any chance of substituting a function like flex?

I am up for it, I just don't know much about flex. Any pointers?

> i don't see anything to set locales for tooltips (are these popups??).
> any chance of substituting a function like flex?

Neither do I. Yes, if you view source they are just html that displays on mouseover. The values are formatted as en_US, so clearly webcharts is forgetting to take locale into account when it generates them.

> any chance of substituting a function like flex?

I am up for it, I just don't know much about flex. Any pointers?

Sorry for the delayed response. I got majorly side-tracked with a bunch of other things.

> sorry, i meant is there "any chance of substituting a function"..for
> formatting a tooltip in webcharts3d.."like flex".

Other than a few "kludegy" ideas, the only way I could think of was to modify the jar. I decided not to as I did not know if / how that affected licensing.

The flex examples look pretty good. Better than cfchart. I went the cfchart route because I know zero about flex ;-) Time to dig in and learn.