Why does GWT ignore browser locale?

browser, gwt

Solution

You can also put this switch in your *.gwt.xml

<set-configuration-property name="locale.useragent" value="Y"/>

this will add language selecting based on language selected in browser. You can also control search order for locale by setting

  <set-configuration-property name="locale.searchorder" value="queryparam,cookie,meta,useragent"/>

But beware that in IE this doesn't work - you should develop server-side language pick based on 'Accept-Language' header send by the IE.

Problem

`GWT` gets locale from either the locale property or the locale query string. If neither is specified, it uses the "default" (ie `en_US`) locale. Why doesn't it get it from the browser settings? It seems the only solution to this is to replace your static html launch page with something like a JSP that reads the browser locales and sets the locale or redirects using the query string. There has to be a better solution than this or simply hard-coding a locale, surely?

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