Localization problem in RichFaces 4 (JSF 2)

[wish79]

Dear All,

i working on application that should be supporting two languages English(ltr) & Arabic(rtl) ,

when

- i tried to change the <f:view local="ar"/> it dose not work

- i tried to change the view local by the code ,But it dose not work :

        UIViewRoot viewRoot = FacesContext.getCurrentInstance().getViewRoot();

        viewRoot.setLocale(new Locale("ar"));;

- i tried change the local from faces-config.xml  but it dose not work .

What is the problem ?

Regards

Wish79

[boy18nj]

it should be <f:view locale="ar">

or

You can let the browser choose the locale. Set the default and supported

locales in WEB-INF/faces-config.xml:

<faces-config>

<application>

<locale-config>

<default-locale>en</default-locale>

<supported-locale>ar</supported-locale>

</locale-config>

</application>

</faces-config>

Make sure yu have the following file also resources/prefix/library/...messages_ar

and it contains the entry-

javax.faces.resource.localePrefix=arabic

[wish79]

it read the property file successfully but i the screen page direction not change this is my problem ? it changed to rtl if i external add dir="rtl" attribute on html tag or body tag or form tag.

[iabughosh]

same here,  i need when i change the locale from (en) to (ar) to change the body & components from (ltr) to (rtl).

[jbalunas]

Although supporting rtl was not a primary focus in this release, it was tested, and most of the components should work fine with that.  I know of a couple of issues, but other than that should be ok.

Question: Have you tried this with just straight JSF?  Does it function correctly?

[iabughosh]

Hi Jay,

I tried it with JSF 2 (faceletes & without faceletes) and it is not working, even if use <f:view locale="ar"> it doesn't work, it was working on JSF 1.2 without facelets, sounds weird !!.

[jbalunas]

I'll be sure to bring this up with the JSF Expert Group, and make sure this is covered, or at least discussed.  It might be more implementation specific ( MyFaces, Mojarra ), but I'll explore it a bit when I can have the EG review.

[iabughosh]

We'll be grateful, you know we can't always make projects with locale en, we must support ar too .

[moe.harb]

if you are using eclipse, Check you arabic properties file it might have some malformed arabic charachters

[moe.harb]

regarding the rtl and ltr you might add one key in your locale resource called "dir" or "lang" and use it in your body tag like for example  <h:body dir="#{localeResource.lang =='ar' ? 'rtl':'ltr'}">