Does PostgreSQL support “accent insensitive” collations?

Use the unaccent module for that – which is completely different from what you are linking to. unaccent is a text search dictionary that removes accents (diacritic signs) from lexemes. Install once per database with: CREATE EXTENSION unaccent; If you get an error like: ERROR: could not open extension control file “/usr/share/postgresql/<version>/extension/unaccent.control”: No such file … Read more

How to internationalize/localize a JSP/Servlet web application?

In case of a basic JSP/Servlet webapplication, the basic approach would be using JSTL fmt taglib in combination with resource bundles. Resource bundles contain key-value pairs where the key is a constant which is the same for all languages and the value differs per language. Resource bundles are usually properties files which are loaded by … Read more

How to use localization in C#

Add a Resource file to your project (you can call it “strings.resx”) by doing the following: Right-click Properties in the project, select Add -> New Item… in the context menu, then in the list of Visual C# Items pick “Resources file” and name it strings.resx. Add a string resouce in the resx file and give … Read more

How to force NSLocalizedString to use a specific language

NSLocalizedString() (and variants thereof) access the “AppleLanguages” key in NSUserDefaults to determine what the user’s settings for preferred languages are. This returns an array of language codes, with the first one being the one set by the user for their phone, and the subsequent ones used as fallbacks if a resource is not available in … Read more

JavaScript for detecting browser language preference [duplicate]

I think the main problem here is that the browser settings don’t actually affect the navigator.language property that is obtained via javascript. What they do affect is the HTTP ‘Accept-Language’ header, but it appears this value is not available through javascript at all. (Probably why @anddoutoi states he can’t find a reference for it that … Read more