I’m using this localization method and added a route parameter that sets the culture and language whenever a user visits example.com/xx-xx/ Example: routes.MapRoute(“DefaultLocalized”, “{language}-{culture}/{controller}/{action}/{id}”, new { controller = “Home”, action = “Index”, id = “”, language = “nl”, culture = “NL” }); I have a filter that does the actual culture/language setting: using System.Globalization; using … Read more
It’s excerpt for the webpage: http://android.programmerguru.com/android-localization-at-runtime/ It’s simple to change the language of your app upon user selects it from list of languages. Have a method like below which accepts the locale as String (like ‘en’ for English, ‘hi’ for hindi), configure the locale for your App and refresh your current activity to reflect the … Read more
The decision to use 1st January 1753 (1753-01-01) as the minimum date value for a datetime in SQL Server goes back to its Sybase origins. The significance of the date itself though can be attributed to this man. Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield. Who steered the Calendar (New Style) Act 1750 through the British … Read more
You need to store the selected locale in the session scope and set it in the viewroot in two places: once by UIViewRoot#setLocale() immediately after changing the locale (which changes the locale of the current viewroot and thus get reflected in the postback; this part is not necessary when you perform a redirect afterwards) and … Read more
Updated list as of Android 5.1: af_ [Afrikaans] af_NA [Afrikaans (Namibia)] af_ZA [Afrikaans (South Africa)] agq_ [Aghem] agq_CM [Aghem (Cameroon)] ak_ [Akan] ak_GH [Akan (Ghana)] am_ [Amharic] am_ET [Amharic (Ethiopia)] ar_ [Arabic] ar_001 [Arabic (World)] ar_AE [Arabic (United Arab Emirates)] ar_BH [Arabic (Bahrain)] ar_DJ [Arabic (Djibouti)] ar_DZ [Arabic (Algeria)] ar_EG [Arabic (Egypt)] ar_EH [Arabic (Western … Read more
<message-bundle> The <message-bundle> is to be used whenever you want to override JSF default warning/error messages which is been used by the JSF validation/conversion stuff. You can find keys of the default warning/error messages in chapter 2.5.2.4 of the JSF specification. For example, Messages_xx_XX.properties files in com.example.i18n package as below which overrides the default required=”true” … Read more
This issue can be partially worked around. The Framework exception code loads the error messages from its resources, based on the current thread locale. In the case of some exceptions, this happens at the time the Message property is accessed. For those exceptions, you can obtain the full US English version of the message by … Read more
What do you think about having a related translation table for each translatable table? CREATE TABLE T_PRODUCT (pr_id int, PRICE NUMBER(18, 2)) CREATE TABLE T_PRODUCT_tr (pr_id INT FK, languagecode varchar, pr_name text, pr_descr text) This way if you have multiple translatable column it would only require a single join to get it + since you … Read more
You can set it on the command line via JVM parameters: java -Duser.country=CA -Duser.language=fr … com.x.Main For further information look at Internationalization: Understanding Locale in the Java Platform – Using Locale
EDIT 2012-01-20: Oh boy! The solution was so much simpler and has been in the framework nearly forever. As pointed out by knightpfhor : string.Compare(s1, s2, CultureInfo.CurrentCulture, CompareOptions.IgnoreNonSpace); Here’s a function that strips diacritics from a string: static string RemoveDiacritics(string text) { string formD = text.Normalize(NormalizationForm.FormD); StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder(); foreach (char ch in … Read more