Widgets fail to show up when localized messages do not exist

[andyhot@…]

Here's an example: <div dojoType="datepicker" lang="en"></div>

Even if messages for the 'en' locale may not exist, I would expect dojo to use default messages (or even those of a 'near' locale) and still display the widget.

Instead, I get FATAL exception raised: Bundle not found: gregorian in dojo.i18n.calendar , locale=en DEBUG: dojo.widget.Parse: error:Error: Bundle not found: gregorian in dojo.i18n.calendar , locale=en

[Adam Peller]

I need to do a better job documenting this, but it's a requirement that you use locales that either match your browser (installed setting, not preferences) or are explicitly declared using djConfig.locale or djConfig.extraLocale prior to loading dojo.js. I'm assuming that your browser is Greek, is that right? If so, you'll need a djConfig setting to see lang="en". Please let me know if that's not the case.

I'm going to hold on to this bug until I've fixed the documentation. I'm also not sure if this needs to be fatal.

[andyhot@…]

Thanks! added djConfig.locale="en" and it seems to work...

I didn't quite get what you mean by '(installed setting, not preferences)' but as i said, declaring the locale explicitly resolves this.

[Adam Peller]

we go by whatever the browser provides for navigator.language (IE uses navigator.userLanguage, or something like that) This comes with the browser installation and is not settable in the preferences dialog. The languages you see in the preferences dialog are sent to the server in HTTP headers and are unfortunately not available to Dojo/JS.

[alex]

so what's the fix? is there one? should we be marking "wontfix"?

[andyhot@…]

well, if you ask me, i'd go for 'invalid'. Further investigation of the problem i originally reported showed this to be a server-side issue.

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Milestone 0.4.1 deleted