I'm playing around with the locale and i18n stuff in c++ and have been looking for real world examples. I've read through the Josuttis chapter on i18n in his book, and found it useful but with no real world examples to draw from I've no idea if I'm following best practices are committing beginner mistakes. What resources can stackoverflo...
Are there any tools to assist with the internationalization of Strings within JSP files? Most IDEs (for example, NetBeans) offer such a feature for Java code. However, in the case of NetBeans, no such feature exists for JSP files. With gettext, for example, there is are various tools out there that assist with extracting text Strings f...
I'm fairly new to Visual Studio and am wondering how best to plan for translation in a new project I'm starting. I need to provide English, German and French. I have used eclipse a lot in the past and there I just developed a new app and when it was complete I could just start a wizard to externalise strings into a resource file. The st...
I need to use utf-8 characters in my perl-documentation. If I use: perldoc MyMod.pm I see strange characters. If I use: pod2text MyMod.pm everything is fine. I use Ubuntu/Debian. $ locale LANG=de_DE.UTF-8 LC_CTYPE="de_DE.UTF-8" LC_NUMERIC="de_DE.UTF-8" LC_TIME="de_DE.UTF-8" LC_COLLATE="de_DE.UTF-8" LC_MONETARY="de_DE.UTF-8" LC_ME...
How can I change the system-default regional settings in windows XP for use by services (run by the system user)? Regional and Language Options in the control panel modify the settings for the logged-in user. However, services don't use the user's settings - they use the system settings. I know that they can be found in the registry her...
We're releasing a new set of resource bundles for a large open source project, and I'd like to make some good recommendations for cross platform resource bundle editors to translators. The only useful candidates I can find include: RBManager Eclipse ResourceBundle Editor ...
We're getting ready to translate our PHP website into various languages, and the gettext support in PHP looks like the way to go. All the tutorials I see recommend using the english text as the message ID, i.e. gettext("Hi there!") But is that really a good idea? Let's say someone in marketing wants to change the text to "Hi there, y...
Hi, I am using a satellite assembly to hold all the localization resources in a C# application. What I need to do is create a menu in the GUI with all the available languages that exists for the application. Is there any way to get information dynamically? ...
How do I convert text between Simplified Chinese GB 2312 or similar multi-byte text strings into UTF8 using c++ ? ...
I'm trying to design a form which contains a dropdown box containing a list of grocery item choices. What criteria should I look at when trying to decide on whether to use a java enum or a lookup table? Also, I will need to plan ahead for i18n support for the dropdown strings. ...
Being a application developer, do I need to know Unicode? ...
Building a java application that supports different Locales, but would like to customize the DateFormat display beyond what is available between FULL,LONG,MEDIUM, and SHORT DateFormat options. Would like to do things like place a character between the date and time components of a DateFormat.getDateTimeFormat(), lowercase the AM/PM, etc...
currently i obtain the below result from the following C# line of code when in es-MX Culture Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentCulture = Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentUICulture = new CultureInfo("es-mx"); <span><%=DateTime.Now.ToLongDateString()%></span> miércoles, 22 de octubre de 2008 i would like to obtain the ...
Hi folks, what is the best practice for multilanguage website using DOM Manipulating with javascript? I build some dynamic parts of the website using javascript. My first thought was using an array with the text strings and the language code as index. Is this a good idea? ...
I'm trying to parse an international datetime string similar to: 24-okt-08 21:09:06 CEST So far I've got something like: CultureInfo culture = CultureInfo.CreateSpecificCulture("nl-BE"); DateTime dt = DateTime.ParseExact("24-okt-08 21:09:06 CEST", "dd-MMM-yy HH:mm:ss ...", culture); The problem is what should I use for the '......
how to set internationalization to a DateTimepicker or Calendar WinForm control in .Net when the desire culture is different to the one installed in the PC? ...
Hi All, I guess this is a multi-part question. I am building a membership site and want to have the accounts as international as possible. What is the best way to collect phone numbers on a form that allows for international numbers? I'm not worried about storing them, just collection and validation. What I have now is a drop down ...
Im a coding a library inluding textual feedback that I need to translate. I put the following lines in a _config.py module that I import everywhere in my app : import gettext, os, sys pathname = os.path.dirname(sys.argv[0]) localdir = os.path.abspath(pathname) + "/locale" gettext.install("messages", localdir) I have the *.mo files in...
I'm using symfony and propel, and I'm trying to invoke a specific culture on an object and output some fields of that object to the screen in that specific culture. However, if the object's mapped database record doesn't have those fields in that specific culture, I would like it to default to the base culture (in this case, en_US) I'm ...
Quick question -- In .Net (VB more specifically, but that doesn't really matter), is there a way to change the format of a number from one culture to another strictly through the that number's type? The issue is this: In English, the number is say, 123.45. Whereas in Sweden, the number would be 123,45 Is there a way to convert 123,4...