multilingual

How to translate /en/file.php to file.php?lang=en in htaccess Apache

I'm writing multilingual website. I have several files on server like: /index.php /files.php /funny.php And would like to add language support by placing language code into URL like this: http://mywebsite/en/index.php would redirect to: http://mywebsite/index.php?lang=en And http://mywebsite/en/files.php would redirect to: ...

In Windows XP and 200x servers, are multilingual user interface packs sufficient for localization testing?

Has anybody any experience that an application would only work with the MUI but not with the native OS or vice versa? Or does anybody know what is the difference between the two systems that developers who develop localized applications should be aware of? ...

How do I make a ASP.NET MVC application multilingual?

How to do the multilingual application in ASp.NET MVC? ...

How to build PHP application with multiple language support (English, French, Chinese etc..)

I'm building a web application that uses LAMP and the Smarty template framework. The website will have plenty of static content (about us page, error alerts, confirmation emails etc...). The web application must support multiple languages. Is the following approach appropriate? 1) All static copy on Smarty template pages (html page...

Change the WHERE for a select on only one row depending on the field content

Ok, this may sound a little weird, but what I need to do is simple. I have a list of companies and each one has a description. The site is in 4 languages. My problem comes when I have listed a company in English but the person who is in charge of translating it in French still didn't make the translation, so I have a simple: SELECT TOP(...

Language for controllers names in ASP.NET MVC

Should my controllers names be in my native language or in English? What is the current best practice? And if in English, how do I make sure that the urls stays in my native tongue? I know that my webapp won't be multilingual and I rather not write a lot of boilerplate. ...

ASP.NET: Better store localizable UI text in resources or in the database?

There seems to be two different approaches. ASP.NET framework gives us an easy way to localize pages by putting UI strings in resources, like UserProfile.en.resx, UserProfile.fr.resx etc. The other approach is to put all strings in separate tables in the database then use some custom mechanisms to retrieve them accodring to the currentl...

How to verify browser support UTF-8 characters properly?

Hi, Is there a way to identify whether the browser encoding is set to/supports "UTF-8" from Javascript? I want to send "UTF-8" or "English" letters based on browser setting transparently (i.e. without asking the User) Edit: Sorry I was not very clear on the question. In a Browser the encoding is normally specified as Auto-Detect (or) ...

SEO issues with identical pages with just slight variation in auxiliary content (shown in different languages)

Are there any issues to be expected if search engines can see the same pages in maybe 2-3 variations, where the main content stays the same but some secondary information differs? Example. Let's imagine a forum thread can be reached at several Urls: http://www.mysite.com/threads/en/12345 http://www.mysite.com/threads/de/12345 http://ww...

Creating a multi-language ActionScript 3.0 site

I am aware of the built-in 'Strings' panel within the Flash IDE, however is this the best way to go about creating a multi-lingual AS3 site/application nowadays? Are there any recommended 3rd party APIs/frameworks available? Ideally I'd like to be able to change language on the fly and support as many character sets as possible, I will ...

Multilanguage in WPF

Can you recomend me a good way to implement a Multilanguage system for a WPF app? The method i'm using right now involves xml, classes and a xaml extension. Works fine in most of cases, but when I have to deal with dynamic labels or dynamic text in general it require some extra effort. I would like to let the programmer working only i...

Write JavaScript in Other Languages

I have some clients who are not English speaking. They would like the JavaScript I write for them to be in another language. Can browsers understand other languages, or am I limited to non-English comments? navigateur.nomApp.indice("Microsoft") Instead of : navigator.appName.indexOf("Microsoft") ...

multilingual php script question

Hi folks. I have this PHP script. It's the only one that really worked to me: <?php /*Check_if_user_has_changed_language: */ if(isset($lang)){/*If_so:*/ setcookie("ling",$lang,time()-60*60*24*365,"/",".sayip.info",0);/*Wipe_previous_cookie*/ setcookie("ling",$lang,time()+60*60*24*365,"/",".sayip.info",0);/*Whatever_the_means_l...

How to implement multilanguage in Java/Swing applications?

What are the different ways of implementing multilingual support in Swing applications? Are you using ResourceBundle with property file and implementing it in every frame? Does it work good for you? What if you use some kind of GUI editor? Is there any other way around? At work we are using Matisse4MyEclipse and the code gets regenerat...

CakePhp helpers and i18n

Hi, i have some questions about cakephp, i spent long time googling for a solution and as i didn't find any i'm not sure i'm taking the right approach. So, i have a menu/sitemap wich is part static (xml file - i10n) and part dynamic (database i18n) i've been asked to cache the menu so that: A component creates a cache xml file of the...

Upgrade Issue in Installshield 2008 Premier Edition

Hi friends, Coming straight to the point i am facing problem while upgrading an Higher version over Lower version. i have implemented multilingual support; Assume that older version being installed in French while doing upgrade it is coming in English which is my Operating System language; in fact it should show in French. please help ...

ASP.NET Localization Issue

I have succesfully added localization to my website. Came next day and it does not work. After reading alot of posts and did some troubleshooting my self. I found out that the Page ignores the page.aspx.en-US.resx. Because I dont have a standard resx for the page it shows the label caption i have in the designer. I just took out the en-U...

Why isn't CultureInfo.NativeName always capitalized?

Just out of curiousity... In our application I list all the available translations in the following format "NativeName - EnglishName". For some languages the NativeName isn't capitalized eg. "Deutsch - German" "español - Spanish" "français - French" "italiano - Italian" "Nederlands - Dutch" "polski - Polish" It's no big deal to capit...

Multilingual Application in ASP.NET MVC - Best Practices?

Hello, I'm developing a web application using ASP.NET MVC (I'm new to the framework and actually quite new to web development in general). My application must support multiple languages - there's a bunch of countries for which I need the application to "speak" the local language. The UI concept is common - have flag icons somewhere, u...

How to build multilingual Crystal reports

We are developing a multilingual Winforms application using visual studio 2008. I am trying to figure out how I can create multilingual reports using crystal Reports. Is there any thing similar to .net resource files in the Crystal reports world? ...