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Resources to learn how to create a compiler /interpreter for the .NET framework.

I'd like to learn more how to create a language for .NET framework. I think I'd like to build a DLR language. I'm having hard time founding good resources. I found a descent article on MSDN that was written more than a year ago. I also spent couple of hours looking at IronPython source code. Could you please share with your resource...

How to load language with gettext in PHP?

I have created a language file in poedit for the use of the PHP gettext function, now on the page I am trying to test it on, I cannot get it to find/load the .po or .mo file I created, does anyone see what I am doing wrong? $locale = "en_US"; putenv("LC_ALL=$locale"); setlocale(LC_ALL, $locale); bindtextdomain("default", "/includes/loca...

Better to use multiple language files or 1?

From your experience, is it better to use 1 language file or multiple smaller langauge files for each language in a PHP project using the gettext extension? I am not even sure if it is possible to use multiple files, it is hard for me to test since the server caches the language files. I am doing multiple languages on a social networ...

How MonoTouch works?

Hi guys, I would really appreciate it anybody could briefly explain me, what's the general approach to implementing things like MonoTouch? I'm really amazed because it's not the first example I see when people get some platform like Java and make it translate into something like C/Objective-C. I can't really imagine how things like Garb...

Javascript language and the $ in jquery

I was wondering, how does the $. in $.ajax({...}); work? it doesnt make sense to me. Sure .ajax as a member make sense but $ isnt a variable name? or is it? How is it defined? ...

How to call user control panel in American English?

How do I call the control panel in a business directory website, except "control panel"? Initially we thought of "My Office", but it revealed a bad idea as soon as I needed to write "Welcome to your My Office" ("welcome to My Office" is no good either: it invites the user to someone else's office :-). I've seen versions like "Personal ...

Detect language of text

Is there any C# library which can detect the language of a particular piece of text? i.e. for an input text "This is a sentence", it should detect the language as "English". Or for "Esto es una sentencia" it should detect the language as "Spanish". I understand that language detection from text is not a deterministic problem. But both G...

Switch Programming Language

I've forgotten how to switch programming languages in Visual Studio 2008. I need to switch from C++ to C#. Help! ...

Zend Framework and switching view script paths

I have a problem. Basically, depending on whether a user goes to /es or /br or /cn etc on our website, we have different language template files. So far, we were using a custom templating engine to make this work, but are making a switch over to ZF. I can't seem to figure out how to get ZF to look for a view script in say cn/about-us if ...

Where is the TextMate Language Parser?

Does anyone know where the code TextMate uses for syntax highlighting is burried? If not, do you know how they parse their language syntaxes, or how you would parse their language syntaxes? That would be awesome to look into. Thanks! Lance ...

Changing the font of the text in an SSRS Report

Hi, Im trying to change the font of the text in my SSRS Report using the SSRS Expression language. e.g.: i have a textbox in my report and i set the Value property of it using the SSRS Expression language ="hello" is there a way to make the "hello" literal an underlined string. Thanks ...

Language of variable names? (native foreign language speakers)

We are a spanish speaking development team, we code in django and we all are pretty fluent in english, as all documentation, sample code, APIs, etc come in english. On our last project we chose to name all the variables, class names, modules, files and such in english, even though the whole application was in spanish, we kept a strings ...

Group/Editor permission for language in EPiServer

I have an issue with a large globalized website with alot of languages in EPiServer. At the moment we have used different nodes for each language, with each spoken language for that country. With this, we have assigned access rights to the node-treew using Editors (e.g NL has EditorsNL). Several of the nodes has Spoken languages as wel...

Can a Perl BEGIN block spread a virus or lose data?

I am still new to Perl. Since BEGIN blocks are run during compilation can't a virus spread or data loss occur from simply compiling? Does Perl do anything to stop it? If so does it mean the code in BEGIN blocks may act differently outside of it? ...

How to detect if the browser supports a language?

Hi, I am building a multilingual website. Is it possible to check if a particular language is installed/supported on the user's machine using PHP or Javascript? I want to detect this and display a message to the user if the language is not supported/installed. Thanks, Mark. ...

Interpreted vs. Compiled Languages for Web Sites (PHP, ASP, Perl, Python, etc.)

I build database-driven web sites. Previously I have used Perl or PHP with MySQL. Now I am starting a big new project, and I want to do it in the way that will result in the most responsive possible site. I have seen several pages here where questions about how to optimize PHP are criticized with various versions of "it's not worth goi...

Python not a standardized language?

I stumbled upon this 'list of programming' languages and found that popular languages like Python are not standardized? Why is that, and what does 'Standardized' mean anyway? ...

View webpage in Hebrew language

hi, I have a website with few HTML pages. How can I display them in the Hebrew language? What are the steps that I should follow to ensure it is viewed in different languages for different countries? Thanks ...

Different Language In Website

I'm trying to write a website in Slovak language (central Europe). What I have done is put these two meta tags into the header: <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-2" /> <meta http-equiv="Content-Language" content="sk" /> The problem is all characters with diacritique are substituted with garbage chara...

How to look up Language ID of messages?

How do you look up a list of language IDs available within SQL Server? I am specifically looking if there are any views within sys schema. ...