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[Niklas Wenzel <nikwen.developer@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Bartosz,

I really tried to understand this, but I fail to see what hinders you from
using the list to which I saw you have already added city IDs for
retrieving the city name.
What's the problem with writing a method which queries that model for the
city name?

Cheers,
Niklas

2015-07-31 22:30 GMT+02:00 Bartosz Kosiorek <gang65@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:

>
> Hello everyone,
>
> In the Clock App, we maintain a list of about 250 popular/commonly used
> locations which have been translated to various languages. The user sees
> this list when opening the add-world-city page where he can choose which
> cities to add to the main clock page. The cities he add are stored in the
> user-database file.
>
> Recently we found an issue in the Clock app that results in the added user
> city names not being translated when switching the system language. It
> became apparent that user added locations are stored in the database as
> translated strings. Thereby when the user switches the phone language, the
> previously translated strings are retrieved from the database and shown in
> the UI in the language previously used by the user.
>
> Steps to reproduce the bug,
> 1. Assuming your phone is used with Language A, open clock app and add few
> locations.
> 2. Change phone language to B.
> 3. Open Clock App
>
> What happens:
> 4. Notice how the added cities are shown in Language A
>
> What is expected:
> 4. Previously added cities are shown in Language B
>
> Bug report:
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu-clock-app/+bug/1477492
>
> The location is stored with following format:
>
>   "worldlocation":
>   {
>      "city": city,
>      "country": country,
>      "timezone": timezone
>   }
>
> In that case "city" is the stored localized name. It is causing the above
> issue.
>
> My idea is to store the "cityID" instead of the localized "city". "CityID"
> will be untranslated universal names like "london", "berlin". I have
> created branch, in which I'm storing "cityId" instead of localized city
> names. The idea is to then use this "CityID" and then return the translated
> cityNames on the fly.
>
> My question is how do I use the generic "cityID" to retrieve the
> translated city names from the popular city location list mentioned above?
> I understand the situation is a bit difficult to understand. If you have
> any further questions about this situation, I can try explaining in more
> detail.
>
> Thanks in advance
> Bartosz
>
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