--- loncom/localize/lonlocal.pm	2003/09/22 18:16:43	1.10
+++ loncom/localize/lonlocal.pm	2003/09/28 02:06:37	1.14
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 # The LearningOnline Network with CAPA
 # Localization routines
 #
-# $Id: lonlocal.pm,v 1.10 2003/09/22 18:16:43 bowersj2 Exp $
+# $Id: lonlocal.pm,v 1.14 2003/09/28 02:06:37 www Exp $
 #
 # Copyright Michigan State University Board of Trustees
 #
@@ -144,11 +144,6 @@ like this:
     'No purchase necessary. Illegal where not allowed.'
  => 'Es ist erlaubt, einfach zu verlieren, und das ist Ihre Schuld.'
 
-The German translation lexicon is in pretty okay shape, but not 
-complete yet. Portuguese currently only covers the login screen. 
-Russian is purely experimental. Looks like UTF-8 is the way to encode 
-this, at least for latin/greek-based languages, but we still have to 
-learn a lot.
 
 Comments may be added with the # symbol, which outside of a string
 (the things with the apostrophe surrounding them, which are the 
@@ -168,6 +163,8 @@ package Apache::lonlocal;
 use strict;
 use Apache::localize;
 use Apache::File;
+use locale;
+use POSIX qw(locale_h);
 
 require Exporter;
 
@@ -184,20 +181,28 @@ use vars qw($lh);
 
 sub mt (@) {
     unless ($ENV{'environment.translator'}) {
-	return $lh->maketext(@_);
+	if ($lh) {
+	    return $lh->maketext(@_);
+	} else {
+	    return @_;
+	}
     } else {
-	my $trans=$lh->maketext(@_);
-	my $link='<a target="trans" href="/cgi-bin/translator.pl?arg1='.
-	    &Apache::lonnet::escape($_[0]).'&arg2='.
-	    &Apache::lonnet::escape($_[1]).'&arg3='.
-	    &Apache::lonnet::escape($_[2]).'&lang='.
-	    $ENV{'environment.translator'}.
-	    '">[['.$trans.']]</a>';
-	if ($ENV{'transreroute'}) {
-	    $reroute.=$link;
-	    return $trans;
+	if ($lh) {
+	    my $trans=$lh->maketext(@_);
+	    my $link='<a target="trans" href="/cgi-bin/translator.pl?arg1='.
+		&Apache::lonnet::escape($_[0]).'&arg2='.
+		&Apache::lonnet::escape($_[1]).'&arg3='.
+		&Apache::lonnet::escape($_[2]).'&lang='.
+		$ENV{'environment.translator'}.
+		'">[['.$trans.']]</a>';
+	    if ($ENV{'transreroute'}) {
+		$reroute.=$link;
+		return $trans;
+	    } else {
+		return $link;
+	    }
 	} else {
-	    return $link;
+	    return @_;
 	}
     }
 }
@@ -205,14 +210,19 @@ sub mt (@) {
 # ============================================================== What language?
 
 sub current_language {
-    return $lh->language_tag();
+    my $lang=$lh->maketext('language_code');
+    return ($lang eq 'language_code'?'en':$lang);
 }
 
 # ============================================================== What encoding?
 
 sub current_encoding {
-    my $enc=$lh->maketext('char_encoding');
-    return ($enc eq 'char_encoding'?'':$enc);
+    if ($lh) {
+	my $enc=$lh->maketext('char_encoding');
+	return ($enc eq 'char_encoding'?'':$enc);
+    } else {
+	return undef;
+    }
 }
 
 # ============================================================== Translate hash
@@ -252,11 +262,10 @@ sub endreroutetrans {
 sub get_language_handle {
     my $r=shift;
     $lh=Apache::localize->get_handle(&Apache::loncommon::preferred_languages);
-    $r->content_languages(["&current_language()"]);
-    my $enc=&current_encoding();
-    if ($enc) {
-
+    if (&Apache::lonnet::mod_perl_version == 1) {
+	$r->content_languages([&current_language()]);
     }
+    setlocale(LC_ALL,&current_language.'.'.&current_encoding);
 }
 
 1;