Re: Web Application Internalization Best Practices

[Booth Martin <booth@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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