Bug 49099 – Android's navigator.language hardcoded to "en"

• Component: WebCore Misc.
• Status: RESOLVED FIXED

from: http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=4641

Using navigator.language reports always "en" in androids browser where as
my system language is de-at and the browser UI-Language is german as well.

Looking at the attributes of the navigator object I see:
navigator.language: en
navigator.userAgent: Mozilla/5.0(Linux;U;Android
1.5;de-at;T-Mobile_G2_Touch Build/CPUCAKE) AppleWebKit/528.5+ ...
navigator.appVersion: 5.0 (Linux;U;Android 1.5; de-at; ...)

I know that navigator.language does not reflect the OS-Language but because
my browser interacts with me in german I would have expected
navigator.language to be "de"

Created attachment 73125 [details]
Changes Android's WebCore::platformDefaultLanguage() to get the correct value from PlatformBridge

[Alexey Proskuryakov]

Looks fine, assuming it's the normal design pattern for Android to call PlatformBridge from WebCore/platform/android files (which seems weird).

[Steve Block]

Comment on attachment 73125 [details]
Changes Android's WebCore::platformDefaultLanguage() to get the correct value from PlatformBridge

Yes, this is a standard pattern for Android. Chromium uses a similar approach too.

[WebKit Commit Bot]

Comment on attachment 73125 [details]
Changes Android's WebCore::platformDefaultLanguage() to get the correct value from PlatformBridge

Clearing flags on attachment: 73125

Committed r71484: <http://trac.webkit.org/changeset/71484>

[WebKit Commit Bot]

All reviewed patches have been landed.  Closing bug.