Inital list creation form cluttered by language options

[Florian Fuchs]

The inital list creation form is cluttered by a number of language checkboxes.

A number of things need to be changed:

1) Move this from the initial form to a different place within the list settings.

2) Detect the user's language (from settings.py).

3) Only show language options for languages that we have a translation for in the wui.

4) Contemplate using one multi select instead of dozens of checkboxes.

[Florian Fuchs (flo-fuchs)]

from:
http://wiki.list.org/display/DEV/Notes+from+the+GHC11+Open+Source+Day

[benste (benste)]

3. → requires settings entry INSTALLED_MAILMAN_TRANSLATION

2. :
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The get_language_info() function provides detailed information about languages:

>>> from django.utils.translation import get_language_info
>>> li = get_language_info('de')
>>> print li['name'], li['name_local'], li['bidi']
German Deutsch False

The name and name_local attributes of the dictionary contain the name of the language in English and in the language itself, respectively. The bidi attribute is True only for bi-directional languages.

The source of the language information is the django.conf.locale module. Similar access to this information is available for template code. See below.
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And more important Template Tags:
{% get_current_language as LANGUAGE_CODE %}
{% get_available_languages as LANGUAGES %}
{% get_current_language_bidi as LANGUAGE_BIDI %}
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More on
https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/topics/i18n/translation/#how-django-discovers-language-preference