Re: Web Application Internalization Best Practices

I misspoke.

I just went back and looked at where I'd done it and I realize now that it wasn't a .css file. I used a regular text file for the labels but I realize now it would probably give undesirable results once the language moved to a right to left or a DBCS.

Sorry for the misinformation Nathan.

On 2/4/2013 2:45 PM, Nathan Andelin wrote:

Booth, I don't understand how you might use .css files to alternate between languages. With .css you're dealing with styling such as "margin" and "padding" and "background-color"; but "Hello" vs. "Hola"?

-Nathan



----- Original Message -----
From: Booth Martin <booth@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: Web Enabling the IBM i (AS/400 and iSeries) <web400@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Monday, February 4, 2013 1:26 PM
Subject: Re: [WEB400] Web Application Internalization Best Practices

Have you considered putting the language-specific items in a
language_en.css file and other languages in their own language_xx.css
file with
rel="alternate stylesheet"?
That would seem fairly easy to implement and allow adding client/site
.css language files with ease. I do this to provide different color
themes and it is fairly quick and is superb for offering the ability to
change items without a programmer being involved.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Holm, Paul" <pholm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: web400@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Cc:
Sent: Monday, February 4, 2013 11:48 AM
Subject: [WEB400] Web Application Internalization Best Practices

All,

We are reevaluating our approach to I18N for web applications. This
involves supporting multiple languages for all our browser UI labels and
messages and error messages.
Our requirements are to be Operating System and Database Independent.
Today we utilize Java and resource bundles but want to see if there are
better approaches.

What are others doing?
What are the other best practices? Gotchas?

Thanks, Paul Holm
www.planetjavainc.com