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Stefan Manastirliu
Stefan Manastirliu

Reputation: 3852

Can i get facebook user information in a specific Locale via facebook connect?

I'm using facebook connect to let users login my application easy. It works well, but, after users allow me to get their facebook info as email, birthday, gender and so on, facebook gives me back these data in user's specific locale.

So, if a user has facebook in english i'll get {"gender" : "male"}, and if a user has facebook in italian, for example, i'll get {"gender" : "uomo"}. Facebook translates the value using user's locale. The problem is that i have to use these user info to make some search on my app, and it's impossible to me to say, for example, "select all 'male' users".

Is there a way to make facebook return user's info in a specific locale? So I will be able to know how to use these data, not only displaying those.

Thanks

Upvotes: 6

Views: 1679

Answers (1)

Brent Baisley
Brent Baisley

Reputation: 12721

According to this page, the "sex" field always returns in English. Of course, the documentation for the "user" table doesn't have a "gender" field.

http://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/fql/user/

Upvotes: 1

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