Question

I am facing a problem. I would like to localize my action names in my project so french people can have clean urls with french names.

http://www.test.com/Home should be http://www.test.com/Accueil

It is a good thing too for google indexing. Moreover I would like to be Restful on the application, so I would like too keep english name because developers (even frenchies) prefer to work on english names.

I don’t know if it’s possible and how.

My first idea should be something like get the browser language, assign it to the CurrentThread.CurrentCulture, so I can select the view name I want.

Thank you very much for your answers.

Answer 1

you can do this when you register the routes in global.asax.

if normally you have this:

routes.MapRoute('Catalog-Brands', 'catalog/brand/', new {controller = 'Brand', action = 'Index', isActive = true}); 

you could make this one too (I don’t know french, sorry)

routes.MapRoute('Catalog-Brands-French', 'french-catalog/french-brand/', new {controller = 'Brand', action = 'Index', isActive = true}); 

you could either make them all available globally or have separate:

public static void RegisterUsRoutes  public static void RegisterFrenchRoutes 

you’d have to make the decision at application startup though (you may or may not be able to register routes at runtime.)