international

how to get the googlebot to get the correct GEOIPed content!?

OK. This problem is doing my head in. And I dont know if there even IS a definitive answer. We have a website, lets call it mycompany.com. It's a UK-based site, with UK based content. Google knows about it, and we have done a load of SEO on it. All is well. Except, we are about to relaunch my company, the GLOBAL brand, so we now need m...

Batch renaming of files with international chars on Windows XP

I have a whole bunch of files with filenames using our lovely Swedish letters å å and ö. For various reasons I now need to convert these to an [a-zA-Z] range. Just removing anything outside this range is fairly easy. The thing that's causing me trouble is that I'd like to replace å with a, ö with o and so on. This is charset troubles a...

Storing content in multiple languages? E.g. English, French, German

How should I store (and present) the text on a website intended for worldwide use, with several languages? The content is mostly in the form of 500+ word articles, although I will need to translate tiny snippets of text on each page too (such as "print this article" or "back to menu"). I know there are several CMS packages that handle m...

How do I detect a NumberDecimalSeparator in a KeyDown event (C#)

I'm trying to see if the user has pressed a decimal separator in a text box, and either allow or suppress it depending on other parameters. The NumberdecimalSeparator returns as 46, or '.' on my US system. Many other countries use ',' as the separator. The KeyDown event sets the KeyValue to 190 when I press the period. Do I just contin...

Does WPF's TextBox support spell-check dictionaries for the Netherlands?

The RichTextBox supports a spellcheck option which is very nice. (SpellCheck.IsEnabled = true) But I cannot seem to get it to another language. (I live in the Netherlands.. ;)) Does any of you have an experience with the SpellCheck option of TextBox? I know it can be change by changing the keyboard settings, but I want to change it in...

Keyboard layout for international programmers?

I think everybody who had to program using a standard German (or any other international) keyboard layout on Windows (or Mac) will complain about the conundrum of either having all special characters ( [ ] | { } / etc. ) needed for most programming languages "at the fingertip" and "losing" the language specific characters (umlauts ä ö ü ...

SQL Server 2005/2008 International Real-Time Availability

My company recently opened an office in Singapore. I work on the web application we use internally to manage the company, using a SQL Server 2005 back-end. Because of slow access over the net from Singapore, we're shipping them a server that will host a local copy of the web app and database and we want to keep their local version of t...

How should an American software developer go about finding a job overseas?

Are there any tech recruiters who specialize in international placement? Any websites? I've looked around on Craigslist, but it seems like a lot of the ads in English are for American companies looking to outsource to remote workers. This doesn't seem like something that would help me. What are some good places to start? ...

SMS / Texting solution needed for multiple countries

Hi, I am looking for an SMS solution like the following SMS inbound and outbound. Each country user gets a number in their country to send messages. Each user will get SMS FROM a number in their country. So they can just reply with their message to that number. EG: User in France will get SMS from the site from a French number. The ...

Export Gridviw to PDF with international characters

Hi There, I have a Gridview with some international characters, How do I add this characters (Fonts) when I export it to PDF format? any idea? Thanks in advance ...

Can aptitude for learning Programming paradigms be influenced by culture or native language's grammar?

It is well known that different people have different aptitudes regarding various programming paradigms (e.g. some people have trouble learning non-procedural, especially functional languages. Some people have trouble understanding pointers - see Joel Spolsky's blog for musings on that. Some people have trouble grasping recursion). I wa...

Problem with Japanese/International Characters with IIS7 URL Rewrite

I have a friend with a Japanese blog, using wordpress, he has the pretty url. Basically domain.com/postname. Well an example of a url might be. "domain.com/テスト". His blog is hosted on an Apache web server. I am running IIS7 and am trying to get my Japanese blog going like it should, and have "domain.com/テスト" show just that one post when...

Building an international site focusing on interface and layout

Dear Stackoverflow, I've been asked to research what the best practices are when building the international version of your site. The main question being asked of me is how we handle Chinese and Arabic. For example, when the user selects Arabic as a language, should only text be right aligned or should our nav, logo and general layou...

Absurd problem displaying silverlight video player on differing domains

I'm having a problem displaying two silverlight movies from different domains. They are both in the bindings of IIS, both are redirected to my private computer/server and both are loading a silverlight plugin into the browser. The first domain displays the movies and the contents of the silverlight. The second one doesn't. The first d...

Using an international keyboard in iPhone app

I need to be able to force a different international keyboard, without the user manually having to go into the Settings application and enable that keyboard. For example, the user only has English (AU) enabled, and I want to be able to bring up a keyboard for inputting Chinese without them having to enable the keyboard, and switch to th...

International weather API (PHP)

I'm looking for the best (free/cheap) international weather PHP API out there. Any suggestions? ...

Escaped International characters?

I am looking at some PHP code where there are translation strings. For French there are characters that I have never seen before and I am asking if someone could shed a light. These strings are used as HTML output, but also as body text to send emails. È = é Ë = è ‡ = à Í = ê ... ...

Validating international Zipcode Format

Hello again, is anyone find validation for zipcode for all countries around the world. i found mostly US,Canada and UK validation scripts in Javascript. any gimme any suggestion how to validate the international zipcodes either in php or js. ...

c++ library for spanish dictionary

I am looking for a good dictionary library to translate english words to spanish. Can someone suggest open-source libraries with reasonably comprehensive data. ...

International Assist on iPhone

Does anyone know if the International Assist feature on the iPhone works when dialing a number using the tel:// URL scheme from an application? For those unfamiliar, IA automatically prefixes the "+1" to US numbers when using the iPhone internationally. I know that this works when dialing from either the built-in Contacts or Phone apps, ...