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Multiple languages in an ASP.NET MVC application?

What is the best way to support multiple languages for the interface in an ASP.NET MVC application. I've seen people use resource files for other applications. Is this still the best way? ...

Any good resources or advice for working with languages with different orientations? (such as Japanese or Chinese)

We have an enterprise web application where every bit of text in the system is localised to the user's browser's culture setting. So far we have only supported English, American (similar but mis-spelt ;-) and French (for the Canadian Gov't - app in English or French depending on user preference). During development we also had some Euro...

.net multilingual cms

i am planning a simple, dual-language website and i'd like to use a .net based cms but i can't find anything suitable. i have experience with dotnetnuke and sharepoint but neither fit the bill - dotnetnuke does not do dynamic site elements multi-lingually & sharepoint is a monster PITA no matter what angle you look at it :). i am on th...

Is it feasible to support multiple applications of the same type that are all written in different languages?

As much as we would all like to say it is a benefit to programmers to be language agnostic, is it really feasible to support multiple enterprise Web applications of the same type all written in different languages? Think about how complicated a CMS or e-commerce system can be -- now imagine supporting three different CMS platforms all wr...

How would I go about creating a custom search index much like Lucene?

I implemented a Lucene search solution awhile back, and it got me interested in compressed file indexes that are searchable. At the time I could not find any good information on how exactly you would go about creating a custom search index, so I wonder if anyone can point me in the right direction? My primary interest is in file formatti...

Storing content in multiple languages? E.g. English, French, German

How should I store (and present) the text on a website intended for worldwide use, with several languages? The content is mostly in the form of 500+ word articles, although I will need to translate tiny snippets of text on each page too (such as "print this article" or "back to menu"). I know there are several CMS packages that handle m...

Best way to handle URLs in a multilingual site in ASP.net

I need to do a multilingual website, with urls like www.domain.com/en/home.aspx for english www.domain.com/es/home.aspx for spanish In the past, I would set up two virtual directories in IIS, and then detect the URL in global.aspx and change the language according to the URL Sub Application_BeginRequest(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal ...

Define a one-to-one relationship with LinqToSQL

I'm playing around with LinqToSQL using an existing multi-lingual database, but I'm running into issues mapping a fairly important one-to-one relationship, so I suspect I am using the feature incorrectly for my database design. Assume two tables, Category and CategoryDetail. Category contains the CategoryId (PK), ParentId and TemplateId...

How do you maintain your multi-language application?

How do you keep the spoken languages strings in your program up to date? Is there an inexpensive way? Where can you find people to do the conversions over time? ...

The origin of sprintf-style string formatting

The string formatting concept found in sprintf can be found in almost any language today (you know, smothering a string with %s %d %f etc. and providing a list of variables to fill their places). Which langugage was it originally that had a library function or language construct which offered this functionality? Please specify some ki...

Multi-lingual web application - how do I detect the user's language in ASP.NET?

I'm building an ASP.NET web application, and all of my strings are stored in a resource file. I'd like to add a second language to my application, and ideally, I'd like to auto-detect the user's browser language (or windows language) and default to that, instead of making them choose something besides English. Currently, I'm handling all...

Multilingual Winforms in .Net - opinions and suggestions

So I've got a program that needs to be multilingual. The only difference between what I'm needing and what I've found on the web is that all the computers my program will run on are set to the localization of EN. We have spanish speaking employees that will use the program just like the english speaking employees. So I won't be able to ...

Schema for a multilanguage database

I'm developing a multilanguage software. As far as the application code goes, localizability is not an issue. We can use language specific resources and have all kinds of tools that work well with them. But what is the best approach in defining a multilanguage database schema? Let's say we have a lot of tables (100 or more), and each ta...

Font choices in International scenarios: multilingual vs unicode

I have a website that will eventually display multiple languages. I notice the common fonts used in web CSS (ex: Arial, Verdana, Times New Roman, Tahoma) and even the newer Vista/Office 2007/VS2008 fonts (Calibri,Cambria, Candara, Corbel, etc) are significantly larger (~350K) than your average (US only?) TTF font (~50k) so these fonts c...

Develop multilingual windows application C#

I am asking about the common techniques which are used in c# to support multilingual interface in windows forms ...

Best way to make an iPhone application multi-lingual

Can anyone tell me the best way to go about making an iPhone application support multiple languages? I am going to put separate versions for each language in the App Store, but what is the best way to represent this in XCode? ...

what is the best method to build "multilingual" script in php?

Hello guys, I am building a website and it need to be in 7 languages? I was wondering if there is a good practice can be applied to get multilingual php script? Easy for me Easy for the translators Also what do you think , should I Store it in DB , XML or in PHP file? ...

Multiple Languages(English, French) on ASP.NET Page

Hi, I was just wondering what is the best way to handle multiple languages on a web page? Should I create an event in the load where I change the labels of all my controls to the approrpiate language text, or is there a better way? I am using .NET framework, thanks. ...

Convert query to variables for multi-language

I have built a couple of multilingual sites which output labels from an XML file - the XML file used is determined by a cookie (ENG, NL, ESP etc) and looks like this: <resources> <coming>Coming soon</coming> </resources> I've been using a script which, within a function, takes each XML child and makes a variable from it's value: ...

Storing Language in URL or Session or other

I am developing a multilingual site and was wondering what is the best way to store the language chosen by the user? Either via QueryString or should it be in Session..or any other options? ...