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How to specify your webpage’s language so Google Chrome doesn’t offer to translate it

April 13, 2023 by Tarik

Google Chrome currently requires several tags to make an (HTML5) document opt out of translation. Before doing this, you should be sure that you know your audience’s language, as otherwise it will prevent foreign sites from properly translating your site. The relevant tags are: <meta charset=”UTF-8″ /> <meta name=”google” content=”notranslate” /> <meta http-equiv=”Content-Language” content=”en_US” /> … Read more

What’s the best database structure to keep multilingual data? [duplicate]

March 29, 2023 by Tarik

Similar to method 3: [languages] id (int PK) code (varchar) [products] id (int PK) neutral_fields (mixed) [products_t] id (int FK) language (int FK) translated_fields (mixed) PRIMARY KEY: id,language So for each table, make another table (in my case with “_t” suffix) which holds the translated fields. When you SELECT * FROM products, simply … LEFT … Read more

How to get the _locale variable inside in a Symfony layout?

February 22, 2023 by Tarik

—UPDATED FROM THE COMMENTS— As Symfony 2.1, you must use {{ app.request.locale }} or {{ app.request.getLocale() }} which returns app.request.locale if available and app.request.defaultLocale if app.request.locale is not set.

Is there any free online dictionary API (json/xml) with multiple languages to choose from? [closed]

February 5, 2023 by Tarik

You can try http://glosbe.com/a-api , it’s big — almost all languages covered. It allows you to access data in JSON/JSONP/XML. There is some limit set for users without key, but you can overcome it by using JSONP on your client side.

Coding in Other (Spoken) Languages

December 29, 2022 by Tarik

If I understood well the question actually is: “does every single coder in the world know enough English to use the exact same reserved words as I do?” Well.. English is not the subject here but programming language reserved words. I mean, when I started about 10 yrs ago, I didn’t have any clue of … Read more

React / Redux and Multilingual (Internationalization) Apps – Architecture

December 18, 2022 by Tarik

After trying quite a few solutions, I think I found one that works well and should be an idiomatic solution for React 0.14 (i.e. it doesn’t use mixins, but Higher Order Components) (edit: also perfectly fine with React 15 of course!). So here the solution, starting by the bottom (the individual components): The Component The … Read more

Best practice for localization and globalization of strings and labels [closed]

December 14, 2022 by Tarik

As far as I know, there’s a good library called localeplanet for Localization and Internationalization in JavaScript. Furthermore, I think it’s native and has no dependencies to other libraries (e.g. jQuery) Here’s the website of library: http://www.localeplanet.com/ Also look at this article by Mozilla, you can find very good method and algorithms for client-side translation: … Read more

When should I use ugettext_lazy?

November 11, 2022 by Tarik

gettext() vs. gettext_lazy() In definitions like forms or models you should use gettext_lazy because the code of this definitions is only executed once (mostly on django’s startup); gettext_lazy translates the strings in a lazy fashion, which means, eg. every time you access the name of an attribute on a model the string will be newly … Read more