#!/usr/bin/env ruby
=begin
cookie.cgi - Set a selected locale to the cookie of WWW Browser.
Set UTF-8 forcely as output charset.
Recommanded to set UTF-8 forcely because some web browser
doesn't send HTTP_ACCEPT_CHARSET correctly.
Copyright (C) 2008 Masao Mutoh
You may redistribute it and/or modify it under the same
license terms as Ruby.
=end
$:<< "../../lib"
require 'locale'
require 'cgi'
# Initialization of Locale library.
Locale.init(:driver => :cgi)
cgi = CGI.new
Locale.set_cgi(cgi)
# Get "lang" from the query string.
lang = cgi["lang"] or ""
#
# CGI part
#
print "Set-Cookie:lang=#{lang}\n"
print "Content-type:text/html; charset=UTF-8\n\n"
puts %Q[
Sample script for CGI and Ruby/Locale