I’ve been struggling with this question for quite some months now, but I haven’t been in a situation that I needed to explore all possible options before. Right now, I feel like it’s time to get to know the possibilities and create my own personal preference to use in my upcoming projects. Let me first … Read more
The new Google Chrome auto-translation feature is tripping up on one page within one of our applications. Whenever we navigate to this particular page, Chrome tells us the page is in Danish and offers to translate. The page is in English, just like every other page in our app. This particular page is an internal … Read more
I want to have a function to create slugs from Unicode strings, e.g. gen_slug(‘Andrés Cortez’) should return andres-cortez. How should I do that? 26 Answers 26
I was going to ask a question about preparing a desktop application to support multiple languages on the UI. In my search for existing questions on the topic I was thinking the word “International”, so I selected the Internationalization tag and read through some matching questions. Eventually I realized I should probably be looking under … Read more
On iPhone NSLocalizedString returns the string in the language of the iPhone. Is it possible to force NSLocalizedString to use a specific language to have the app in a different language than the device ? 28 Answers 28
I need to use UTF-8 in my resource properties using Java’s ResourceBundle. When I enter the text directly into the properties file, it displays as mojibake. My app runs on Google App Engine. Can anyone give me an example? I can’t get this work. 17 Answers 17
I’m looking for a list of all locales and their short codes for a PHP application I am writing. Is there much variation in this data between platforms? Also, if I am developing an international application, can I just support one version of English or are there significant differences in English across the world? 9 … Read more
This question already has answers here: Get visitors language & country code with javascript (client-side) [duplicate] (3 answers) How to determine user’s locale within browser? (10 answers) Closed 4 years ago. I have been trying to detect the browser language preference using JavaScript. If I set the browser language in IE in Tools>Internet Options>General>Languages, how … Read more
Why 1753? What do they have against 1752? My great great great great great great great grandfather would be very offended. 6 s 6
