--- loncom/localize/lonlocal.pm	2003/09/23 02:19:09	1.12
+++ loncom/localize/lonlocal.pm	2003/10/04 18:13:36	1.18
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 # The LearningOnline Network with CAPA
 # Localization routines
 #
-# $Id: lonlocal.pm,v 1.12 2003/09/23 02:19:09 albertel Exp $
+# $Id: lonlocal.pm,v 1.18 2003/10/04 18:13:36 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;
 
@@ -228,6 +225,18 @@ sub current_encoding {
     }
 }
 
+# =============================================================== Which locale?
+# Refer to locale -a
+#
+sub current_locale {
+    if ($lh) {
+	my $enc=$lh->maketext('lang_locale');
+	return ($enc eq 'lang_locale'?'':$enc);
+    } else {
+	return undef;
+    }
+}
+
 # ============================================================== Translate hash
 
 sub texthash {
@@ -268,12 +277,59 @@ sub get_language_handle {
     if (&Apache::lonnet::mod_perl_version == 1) {
 	$r->content_languages([&current_language()]);
     }
-    my $enc=&current_encoding();
-    if ($enc) {
+###    setlocale(LC_ALL,&current_locale);
+}
+
+# ========================================================== Localize localtime
 
+sub locallocaltime {
+    my $thistime=shift;
+    if ((&current_language=~/^en/) || (!$lh)) {
+	return ''.localtime($thistime);
+    } else {
+	my $format=$lh->maketext('date_locale');
+	if ($format eq 'date_locale') {
+	    return ''.localtime($thistime);
+	}
+	my ($seconds,$minutes,$twentyfour,$day,$mon,$year,$wday,$yday,$isdst)=
+	    localtime($thistime);
+	my $month=(split(/\,/,$lh->maketext('date_months')))[$mon];
+	my $weekday=(split(/\,/,$lh->maketext('date_days')))[$wday];
+	if ($seconds<10) {
+	    $seconds='0'.$seconds;
+	}
+	if ($minutes<10) {
+	    $minutes='0'.$minutes;
+	}
+	$year+=1900;
+	my $twelve=$twentyfour;
+	if ($twelve>12) {
+	    $twelve-=12;
+	    $twelve.=$lh->maketext('date_pm');
+	} else {
+	    $twelve.=$lh->maketext('date_am');
+	}
+	foreach 
+	('seconds','minutes','twentyfour','twelve','day','year',
+	 'month','weekday') {
+	    $format=~s/\$$_/eval('$'.$_)/gse;
+	}
+	return $format;
     }
 }
 
+# ==================== Normalize string (reduce fragility in the lexicon files)
+
+# This normalizes a string to reduce fragility in the lexicon files of
+# huge messages (such as are used by the helper), and allow useful
+# formatting: reduce all consecutive whitespace to a single space,
+# and remove all HTML
+sub normalize_string {
+    my $s = shift;
+    $s =~ s/\s+/ /g;
+    $s =~ s/<[^>]+>//g;
+    return $s;
+}
 1;
 
 __END__