localization

How to implement Android l10n ?

How to implement Android system l10n ?It has been l10n in German.What is different between Android and Linux in realizing system localization? What is Operational process of implementing Android l10n ? What is needed to implement Android system localization? such as Unicode UTF8, charset,other anything else? ...

Django admin doesn't show translated enumerations in list view under Python 2.3

When using localized list of "choices" for a model field, the admin doesn't show the translated values in the list view. Short example: from django.utils.translation import ugettext_lazy as _ class OrderStates: STATES = ( (STATE_NEW, _("New")), (STATE_CANCELLED, _("Cancelled")), ) class Order(models.Model): st...

How to get an application's GUI translated into other languages

I'd like to translate my GUI into other languages. Unfortunately I don't speak Mandarin, Spanish, Arabic, or any common language other than English. The technical hurdles are no problem... what I'm wondering is: How do you get the actual translations? Amazon's Mechanical Turk? Google Translate? Pay an actual translation company? ...

If Ascii operators are definable, why not Unicode Symbols?

I'm sure I join many in being glad there's finally a powerful language tied tightly to a mainstream GUI/Database/Communication framework. I haven't been sure where to post this, but here seems the best spot. I need to use Unicode symbol characters either as operators or as function names. I'd like syntactic sugar, but I don't need i...

Sending localized messages to Django users

I'm having trouble with sending localized messages to Django users using the user.message_set.create(message="Message") mechanism. First of all, user.message_set.create(message=_("Message")) flat out doesn't work, SQLite says it won't accept the non-ascii parameter (localized message contains special characters). user.message_se...

How to enclose text patterns within xml elements, except when it is already inside a certain xml element?

I have several thousand xml files generated from java properties files prepared for translation in the TTX format. They contain quite a few variables, that I need to protect from the translators, as they often break such things. The variables are in the form of numbers or occasionally text between a pair of curly braces eg. {0}, {this}. ...

Localization based on User Profile

Hello All, 1) I have a requirement where in I need to change the Language of the site depending on the User who has logged in. a) How to achieve this? Is it possible to do without Variations? I don't want to change the URL! b) To get the language of the user should I create a custom field in the Active Directory / Can make use of the ...

ASP.NET: "The resource class for this page was not found."

Hi all, Myself and a colleague have recently upgraded to Windows Vista, and have been using it to develop ASP.NET applications with Visual Studio 2008 without many issues. And up until this morning, I had been managing to use local resources fine too. However, this morning, my application suddenly stopped working with local resources, ...

Flex/ActionScript: Support for localizing numbers and dates?

Does Flex/ActionScript offer support for localizing numbers and dates to a user's particular region? ...

Page.UICulture -- How do I retrieve the Two Letter UICulture Code?

In ASP.NET webforms, when setting UICulture="en" in the @Page directive, a Response.Write(Page.UICulture) returns the string "English" instead of the two letter language code "en". Is the the only way to return the two letter language name by using this? CultureInfo.CurrentUICulture.TwoLetterISOLanguageName Or is there a better / mor...

Looking for a tool to auto-enlarge all of our dialog resources

So far my Gooling and searching around here haven't come up with anything of the sort. There are translation tools aplenty - we even have a license for Alchemy Catalyst 5.0. But what I want is a tool that will take an .rc file and grow all of the dialogs by a certain percentage - say 20%. That way the English will be a little more spa...

How to handle localization/string values in an ASP.NET Web MVC project?

I am trying to put all of my strings into the resource file, something I do for all my Windows and Web Forms applications. Works great when it comes to changes string values for labels and/or localizing the application. I tried adding the string values to my Web MVC project, but cannot seem to access the Resource file from the inline c...

Which is locale-aware: OleDb.Currency or OleDb.Decimal?

This is two-fold. I have an Access database and a table containing MS Access Currency fields. My customers in the USA use decimal values like 1.23 and my customers in Ecuador use decimal values like 1,23. I have some ADO legacy code and I've tried creating ADODB Parameters with type adDecimal and also with type adCurrency. In either ...

Fles SDK Spanish localization

I'm trying to work with a Flex project that's localized for both English and Spanish. Flex Builder is throwing the following error: unable to open 'C:\Program Files\Adobe\Flex Builder 3\sdks\3.2.0\frameworks\locale\es_ES' Are there some extra files SDK files that I need to download? As always, thanks for the help! ...

where does asp and iis 6.0 get its date format

I've found a dilly of a pickle with a new web server. We have a new web server that is displaying dates differently than our old web servers. We are running asp classic web pages on IIS 6.0 with windows server 2003. We have logged in as an administrator and set the regional settings as appropriate and then applied the settings to curr...

Click Once Deploy/Setup Project

Hi, im getting the following errors when i set ProjectProperties->Publish->Options->Publish Language to German: Warning 1 Could not match culture 'de-DE' for item 'Windows Installer 3.1'. Using culture 'en' instead. * Warning 2 Could not match culture 'de-DE' for item '.NET Framework 3.5'. Using culture 'en' instead. Im using German ...

When and which function is called to load resource for current page in ASP.NET?

protected override void InitializeCulture() { ... Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentUICulture = frInfo; ... } We know we can set currentUICulture to make current page load language specific resource file. My questions are: When and which function is called to load resource for current page in ASP.NET? What is the internal mechni...

LoadString works only if I don't have an English string table

I want to be able to modify the application's language programatically, or at least use the language specified in Control Panel -> Regional and Language Options -> Formats. If I add an english string table, make a french and a german copy of it, and delete the english one, I can programatically switch between loading the french and the ...

.net Url rewriting for localization, issues with forms authentication and the loginUrl

I'm using a HttpModule to rewrite the urls on a multi-lingual site. In the HttpModule, I'm adding a handler for the BeginRequest event, and looking for the first part of the path which contains the culture name. For example, /fr-ca/index.aspx will be rewritten to /index.aspx and set the thread's culture and ui culture to 3084. This work...

Localization with JQuery?

I have no idea how to handle localization with JQuery. I want to set an innerHTML with German text, but if the browser is configured to use English, then I want to set English text. In PHP I use gettext for such stuff, but how to do it in JavaScript/jQuery? ...