Hi, my primary language is spanish, but I use all my software in english, including windows; however I'd like to use speech recognition in spanish. Do you know if there's a way to use vista's speech recognition in other language than the primary os language? ...
A friend of mine is now building a web application with J2EE and Struts, and it's going to be prepared to display pages in several languages. I was told that the best way to support a multi-language site is to use a properties file where you store all the strings of your pages, something like: welcome.english = "Welcome!" welcome.spani...
I'm personally an advocate of the ternary operator: () ? : ; I do realize that it has its place, but I have come across many programmers that are completely against ever using it, and some that use it too often. What are your feelings on it? What interesting code have you seen using it? ...
How can I transform a website to be able to handle multi language (example : english, french, spanish)? I do not like the resource file because I feel limited and it's pretty long to build the list. Do you have any suggestion? Update For the moment the best way we found is to use an XML file and with some Xpath et get values. ...
I have developed about 300 Applications which I would like to provide with multi-language capabilities independent from the Operating System. I have written a just-in-time translator, but that is too slow in applications with many components. What would you suggest I do? ...
Does anyone have any experience with doing this? I'm working on a Java decompiler right now in C++, but would like a higher level language to do the actual transformations of the internal trees. I'm curious if the overhead of marshaling data between languages is worth the benefit of a more expressive and language for better articulatin...
Greetings, I'm in the middle of writing a Flash application which has multilingual support. My initial choice of font for this was Tahoma, for its Unicode support. The client prefers a non-standard font such as Lucida Handwriting. Lucida Handwriting doesn't have the same, say, Cyrillic support as Tahoma, which poses a problem that th...
I have a site that will ultimately support 4 languages and 2 countries (US & Canada, English and Spanish) I'm wondering what's the best way to set up the directory structure? Right now, I have a root site called site.com: This will take you to a page where you choose your country and language. Ideally, I want to have the directory l...
I have to build a GUI application on Windows Mobile, and would like it to be able user to choose the language she wants, or application to choose the language automatically. I consider using multiple dlls containing just required resources. 1) What is the preferred (default?) way to get the application choose the proper resource languag...
I'm developing a web service that needs to return results in both french and english. (Other languages may be added later.) The web service is written in C#. I have separated all of the strings into a resource file. I was planning on adding a parameter to the service and setting the Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentCulture to the appropriate...
Hello, I have added multi-language using the short article below. When you add for example German language you will have these files: formMain.resx formMain.de-DE.resx formMain.Designer.cs formMain.cs In first file you will have resources for neutral language, like strings, images, .. So now you need to add also resources for string...
I've seen this around, but never heard a clear explanation of why... This is really for any language, not just C# or VB.NET or Perl or whatever. When comparing two items, sometimes the "check" value is put on the left side instead of the right. Logically to me, you list your variable first and then the value to which you're comparing....
Which is the best way of implementing a language translation for mutli -lang site. I have two methods, i.e. 1) Just put all the static text contents in the pages to database ie a database driven programing style $translation('register_form'); <form > <input name="search" > </form> some sort of transltion. 2) is in like wordpress .m...
Hi all, I have to convert all my echo/print string from my php source code file to PO file(for the language translation), is there any batch convector available for the same. ...
I often find myself using several programming languages when making .NET applications. Usually C++/CLI for interop to legacy code and C# for the rest. With the coming support for F# as a first-class language, I could see myself mixing that in as well. But is the only way to use multiple language still to setup a project per language? D...
I'm searching for a lightweight e-Commerce web-application implemented in PHP5 and using MySQL as storage db. main requirements are: as small as possible Free or Open Source supporting multi-language (best if utf-8 was primarily supported) easy to use (don't need core to be bloated with functionality I won't use) basic system for sett...
I am writing a site with more than one language, is there any easy way or technique to reduct the workload of changing which text to another language.I have an idea, but I don't know whether it is suitable or easy enough. I create a XML that contain all the text in my web, when the user change their language, my program will base on the ...
Hi, I plan to build a websites that come to target specific countries and each country should be translated to theirs language/s (ie. Canada speak both English and French). I've many questions but I think I first need to visit websites that target multiple countries and languages to get some inspiration and see how they did. So to thi...
I am developing a multi-language site in Django. In order to improve SEO, I will give every language version a unique URL like below, english: www.foo.com/en/index.html french: www.foo.com/fr/index.html chinese: www.foo.com/zh/index.html However, Django looks for a "django_language" key in user's session or cookie to determine lang...
.I'm trying to set up a multi language website with kohana v3, following this tutorial: http://kerkness.ca/wiki/doku.php?id=example_of_a_multi-language_website Routing to a controller or action within i.e. website/controller/action seems to work as the url is properly redirected to website/lang/controller/action. However this is not w...