If human-readable text is available in multiple languages, which do you
pick? Web browsers let you enter which languages you're prepared to
accept, and the best one is chosen.
I've written a small module that picks a language from those available,
based on a list of acceptable languages given by the user. So if the
user's preferences are qw(fr it) and a document is available in
qw(en fr), then 'fr' will be chosen. This is trivial, but there are
wrinkles involved in handling 'dialects' like en_GB versus en_US versus
en. At the moment this is all the module contains, but it might get
routines to work out the user's preferences based on $ENV{LANG}, the
Windows Registry or whatever.
I think Lingua::Preferred is a reasonable name.
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Ed Avis
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