Re: Web Application Internalization Best Practices

I use a mix of server side procedures and javascript translations. It is
quite easy to do
as long as you only translates SBCS, the real problem is if you want to mix
SBCS and DBCS in the output buffer, that is if you want to have full UNICODE
support.

There are several levels of translations:

- General words such as "Log off" > "Déconnexion"

- Metadata such as "Customer Number" > "Champ Numéro de Client"

- Data from referential tables such as "Danish" > "Daniose"

And it is also a question if you want to be able to have base applications
written in different languages running in the same framework.

All SBCS support is today build into powerEXT Framework and i'm working
on full UNICODE/DBCS support as you can se on my testsite:

http://5.103.128.110:6382/pextcgiCOR/testutf8.pgm



On Mon, Feb 4, 2013 at 10:39 PM, Booth Martin <booth@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

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

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Booth Martin
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