fix: App switches back to default installation language when navigating to root

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Tom Moor
2023-09-07 22:48:19 -04:00
parent d8bfb0fe5d
commit 5c8bcc11b4
7 changed files with 117 additions and 77 deletions

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@@ -2,24 +2,34 @@ import { i18n } from "i18next";
import { unicodeCLDRtoBCP47 } from "@shared/utils/date";
import Desktop from "./Desktop";
/**
* Detects the user's language based on the browser's language settings.
*
* @returns The user's language in CLDR format (en_US)
*/
export function detectLanguage() {
const [ln, r] = navigator.language.split("-");
const region = (r || ln).toUpperCase();
return `${ln}_${region}`;
}
/**
* Changes the language of the app, and updates the spellchecker language
* if running in the desktop shell.
*
* @param locale The locale to change to, in CLDR format (en_US)
* @param i18n The i18n instance to use
*/
export async function changeLanguage(
toLanguageString: string | null | undefined,
locale: string | null | undefined,
i18n: i18n
) {
// Languages are stored in en_US format in the database, however the
// frontend translation framework (i18next) expects en-US
const locale = toLanguageString
? unicodeCLDRtoBCP47(toLanguageString)
: undefined;
const localeBCP = locale ? unicodeCLDRtoBCP47(locale) : undefined;
if (locale && i18n.languages?.[0] !== locale) {
await i18n.changeLanguage(locale);
await Desktop.bridge?.setSpellCheckerLanguages(["en-US", locale]);
if (localeBCP && i18n.languages?.[0] !== localeBCP) {
await i18n.changeLanguage(localeBCP);
await Desktop.bridge?.setSpellCheckerLanguages(["en-US", localeBCP]);
}
}