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Emulator not sending user's Locale in conversationUpdate activities

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When connecting to a bot with the emulator and specifying the Locale, the conversationUpdate Activity that is passed to the bot has a null Locale. Only when MessageActivitys are sent is the Locale specified.

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Created 6 years ago
Comments:6 (5 by maintainers)

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tonyanzianocommented, Aug 13, 2019

@stevengum there is already a global locale setting in the Emulator that defaults to en-US:

So it would be as simple as grabbing the setting value from the settings at the time of sending the conversationUpdate activity and appending it to the activity payload.

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cwhittencommented, Feb 25, 2021

We’ll keep this on our long-term backlog. No ETA, but we would happily accept a community contribution.

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