How have you implement Internationalization (18n) in actual projects you've worked on? I took an interest in making software cross-cultural after I read the famous post by Joel, The Absolute Minimum Every Software Developer Absolutely, Positively Must Know About Unicode and Character Sets (No Excuses!). However I have yet to able to take...
Store everything in GMT? Store everything the way it was entered with an embedded offset? Do the math everytime you render? Display relative Times "1 minutes ago"? ...
I am maintaining an app for a client that is used in two locations. One in England and one in Poland. The database is stored in England and uses the format £1000.00 for currency, but the information is being gathered locally in Poland where 1000,00 is the format. My question is, in VB6 is there a function that takes a currency string i...
I need to store products for an e-commerce solution in a database. Each product should have descriptive information, such as name, description etc. I need any product to be localized to x number of languages. What I've done so far, is to make any column that should be localized and nvarchar(MAX) and then i store an XML string like this...
If all you see is the ugly no-char boxes, what tools or strategies do you use to figure out what went wrong? (The specific scenario I'm facing is no-char boxes within a <select> when it should be showing Japanese chars.) ...
I have an application on which I am implementing localization. I now need to dynamically reference a name in the resouce file. assume I have a resource file called Login.resx, an a number of strings: foo="hello", bar="cruel" and baz="world" normally, I will refer as: String result =Login.foo; and result=="hello"; my problem is, that...
How do you set the Windows time zone on the local machine programmatically in C#? Using an interactive tool is not an option because the remote units have no user interface or users. The remote machine is running .NET 2.0 and Windows XP Embedded and a local app that communicates with a central server (via web service) for automated dir...
I'm trying to find out the 'correct' windows API for finding out the localized name of 'special' folders, specifically the Recycle Bin. I want to be able to prompt the user with a suitably localized dialog box asking them if they want to send files to the recycle bin or delete them directly. I've found lots on the internet (and on Stack...
Hi, I am working on localization for a asp.net application that consists of several projects. For this, there are some strings that are used in several of these projects. Naturally, I would prefer to have only one copy of the resource file in each project. Since the resource files don't have an namespace (at least as far as I can tell...
How can i format currency related data in a manner that is culture aware in JavaScript? ...
I'm currently working on upgrading a product for the Chinese market. The target is a ARMTDMI7 with a QVGA display. Most resources I've located on the net are targeted at desktop or web programming rather than embedded devices. Can anyone suggest some tools and resources that might be useful? What are the best techniques for extracting ...
I'm writing an asp.net application that will need to be localized to several regions other than North America. What do I need to do to prepare for this globalization? What are your top 1 to 2 resources for learning how to write a world ready application. ...
I am currently building in Version 3.5 of the .Net framework and I have a resource (.resx) file that I am trying to access in a web application. I have exposed the .resx properties as public access modifiers and am able to access these properties in the controller files or other .cs files in the web app. My question is this: Is it poss...
I'm using Visual Studio (2005 and up). I am looking into trying out making an application where the user can change language for all menues, input formats and such. How would I go on doing this, as I suppose that there is some complete feature within .Net that can help me with this? I need to take the following into account (and fill me...
There seems to be no good way to localize a WPF application. MSDN seems to think that littering my XAML with x:Uid's, generating CSV files, and then generating new assemblies (using their sample code!) is the answer. Worse, this process doesn't address how to localize images, binary blobs (say, PDF files), or strings that are embedded ...
I wanting to show prices for my products in my online store. I'm currently doing: <span class="ourprice"> <%=GetPrice().ToString("C")%> </span> Where GetPrice() returns a decimal. So this currently returns a value e.g. "£12.00" I think the correct HTML for an output of "£12.00" is "£12.00", so although this is rendering fi...
In a .net 2 winforms application, what's a good way to set the culture for the entire application? Setting CurrentThread.CurrentCulture for every new thread is repetitive and error-prone. Ideally I'd like to set it when the app starts and forget about it. ...
I'm currently using .resx files to manage my server side resources for .Net. The application that I am dealing with also allows developers to plugin javascript into various event handlers for client side validation, etc.. What is the best way for me to localize my javascript messages and strings? Ideally, I would like to store the str...
I've been looking into making applications suitable for multiple languages in C# since I need to work on a small project where this is the case. I have found basically two ways to do this: Set a form's Localizable property to true, set the Language property, fill all the labels and such, and you're 'done'. The major drawback I see in th...
I am working on a WinForms application programmed in C# .NET 2.0 and VS2008. I am just about to start translating the app into several languages. Before I start, is it a good idea to use the VS2008 itself for all the localization? Or is it better to use some external tool right away? This is my first .NET app, so I rather ask before I st...