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Wrong Meta Lang value in the Meta Tag

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pch
@pch
9 years ago
328 posts
Hello,

In the Global Config (admin), my Default Language is set as French (fr-FR) but why in the home page Meta Tag (when I view the code source), it shows "en" (english) like this:

<html lang="en" dir="ltr">

I think it should show the default language like this:

<html lang="fr-FR" dir="ltr">

How to get it fix and display the correct defaut language in the Meta Lang Tag?

Thanks

updated by @pch: 01/10/17 08:46:43PM
michael
@michael
9 years ago
7,800 posts
Most of the skins use this in their meta.tpl file:
<!doctype html>
<html lang="{jrCore_lang module="_settings" id="lang" default="en"}" dir="{jrCore_lang module="_settings" id="direction" default="ltr"}">

Check it for your skin.
pch
@pch
9 years ago
328 posts
That I know. But the question is how to get it to automatically show when the default language is not english but french. something seems to be wrong in JR.
brian
@brian
9 years ago
10,149 posts
pch:
That I know. But the question is how to get it to automatically show when the default language is not english but french. something seems to be wrong in JR.

jrCore_lang is the template function to bring in the proper lang string - as long as you reference the correct items in your meta.tpl file it should show the correct setting.


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pch
@pch
9 years ago
328 posts
Hi Brian,

Unfortunatly it doesn't. Please check it in your test site. You will see that it doesn't work.
brian
@brian
9 years ago
10,149 posts
I will get a test setup here - I can see the code is correct and returning the correct values, so it SHOULD be working, but I will check.


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Founder and Lead Developer - Jamroom
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pch
@pch
9 years ago
328 posts
Thanks a lot.
brian
@brian
9 years ago
10,149 posts
I have just finished testing this and I think I know what is going on here. So by default if Jamroom sees:

1) the user is not logged in
2) does not have a language preference cookie set
3) is not SETTING their lang preference (via the "set_user_language" param)

Then the next thing it does is look at the user's HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE string from their browser and see's if their browser preferred language is available on the site - if it is it uses it, else it drops to using the default language.

So in this case when you are testing it your browser is likely reporting that English is the primary preferred language, which is why you don't see the meta tag lang strings change.

Let me know if that makes sense.

Thanks!


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Brian Johnson
Founder and Lead Developer - Jamroom
https://www.jamroom.net

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