internationalization

How can I convert language of a div?

I am recently working in a project. There I need to convert language from English to Japanese by button click event. The text is in a div. Like this: "<div id="sampletext"> here is the text </div>" "<div id="normaltext"> here is the text </div>" The text is come from database. How can I convert this text easily? ...

Django localized templates

How can create multilingual Django site? Is it a good idea to create template set for each language? How should I use that sets of templates (if it's a good idea)? ...

Make Django admin use translated field names

I'm doing a localization of a Django app. The front-end website works fine and the Django admin site picks up the selected language as well. But it only applies the language settings in some places and uses the default English versions of field and column names, even though these have been translated. Why? How can I make it use the tra...

change language

hi how to change the language in iPhone application ?. i mean eg : in my application one label is there i want put a dutch word . what is the easy way. read from property file make one static class in project with string variable. or is possible any change in property file. pls help me... thnx and regards all ...

Get a MS GeoId from a 3 lettor ISO code (ISO 3166-1 alpha-3)

I have a 3 letter ISO code (e.g. DEU for germany, USA for America...) and would like to get the GeoID as listed in this table, also available here How can I do that using either straight .NET, P/Invoking or through the MapPoint PIA. e.g. given "SWE", I would like to retrieve 221. System.Globalisation.RegionInfo looks kinda promising - ...

Inject I18n text into javascript using tapestry-3

Hi, I'm adding Internationalization to a tapestry app. Is there a standard tapestry-3 technique to Internationalize strings that appear as Javascript literals? For example: <input jwcid="submitBtn" type="submit" accesskey="U" value="Update" class="actionBtn" onclick="return confirm('Are you sure that you want to do that?');"/></td> ...

Localizing and Globalization of WinForms applications

Hi, We've developed a WinForms application (targeting .NET 2.0 with VS2008), we've just found out that we need to localize it for use in another language (other than english) :( What are the guidelines for developing multi-lingual languages in .NET? Another application borrows Paint.NET's idea of globalization (using resources) but I w...

How to properly support English and French dates with VB6 and SQL Server?

We are adding French support to an older VB6 app. The original developer used a mix of date formats when writing to the database, but SQL didn't seem to mind as it was all in English. (March 31, 2009 or 2009-03-31 etc...) When you try running the app on a French machine, you get: [-2147217913][Microsoft][ODBC SQL Server Driver][SQL Se...

ISO 4217 - How Do I retrieve the numeric value(840) for the currency code "USD" in .NET?

For the currency code ISO 4217, how do I retrieve the numeric value from within the .NET framework? For example, the numeric value for the US Dollar is 840. ISO Code 4217 ...

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? ...

how to change default culture settings in a .net web application?

Our web application (.net/C#) formats currency amounts using amount.ToString("c"), shown localized to a few different regions. Our French Candian users prefer all amounts to be the US format (123,456.99 vs. the default windows way for fr-CA of 123 456,99). What is the best way to handle that ? Can I simply modify the regional settings...

SQL 'Like' operator and 'aa'

We've stumbled upon a very odd problem in one of our applications. The seach engine uses a stored procedure to compare a bunch of filters. However when a specific type of string is inserted, the sql server (2005) behaves very odd. I've isolated the problem to the following: select 'match!' where 'teliaa' like '%telia%' The collation ...

.po to .mo convertor in php?

i want a PHP script which can convert .po(Portable Object) as .mo(Machine Object) file? is any script available in PHP? byte +------------------------------------------+ 0 | magic number = 0x950412de | | | 4 | file f...

What's a good way to replace international characters with their base Latin counterparts using Python?

Hi there. Say I have the string "blöt träbåt" which has a few a and o with umlaut and ring above. I want it to become "blot trabat" as simply as possibly. I've done some digging and found the following method: import unicodedata unicode_string = unicodedata.normalize('NFKD', unicode(string)) This will give me the string in unicode for...

Adding support for i18n in PHP with gettext?

I've always heard about gettext - I know it's some sort of unix command to lookup a translation based on the string argument provided, and then produces a .pot file but can someone explain to me in layman's terms how this is taken care of in a web framework? I might get around to looking at how some established framework has done it, bu...

Setting language on iPhone application

Hi! I am working on an application which I am planning to release both in English and Spanish languages. With this I mean, I would like it to have two separate apps in the App Store, one being displayed with English title, and the other one with Spanish title (and each with contents in their respective language). This means that the la...

Storing and displaying unicode string (हिन्दी) using PHP and MySQL

I have to store hindi text in a MySQL database, fetch it using a PHP script and display it on a webpage. I did the following: I created a database and set its encoding to UTF-8 and also the collation to utf8_bin. I added a varchar field in the table and set it to accept UTF-8 text in the charset property. Then I set about adding data ...

Using CultureAndRegionInfoBuilder to update built-in .Net culture

I'm attempting to change the built in .Net culture fr-CA, using the following method: CultureAndRegionInfoBuilder cib = new CultureAndRegionInfoBuilder("fr-CA", CultureAndRegionModifiers.Replacement); try { Console.WriteLine("Updating " + cib.CultureName); cib.NumberFormat.CurrencyGroupSeparator = ","; ...

String.Format consider locale or not?

Is it true that String.Format works 2 ways: if we use built-in format such as C, N, P.... it will take locale settings into account? if we use custom format code such as #,##0.000 it will NOT take locale settings into account? In my code, I use method like this String.Format("{0:#.##0,000}", value); because my country use comma ...

Character encoding for thai characters

I have a requirement to read a RTF file with thai characters and write it to a text file. I tried using TIS-620, MS874,ISO-8859-11,but thai characters are not displaying properly when i open the resulting output file in notepad or textpad. But it works well with Wordpad. Please guide me. Thanks and Regards, Ramya. Code that solved the ...