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Questions tagged [localization]

Localization is the process of adapting a product or service to a particular language, culture, and desired local "look-and-feel".

Localization is the process of adapting internationalized software for a specific region or language by adding locale-specific components, translating text as well as formatting output based on specific locale (e.g. number and date formats, currency sign, etc).

Localization can be referred to by the numeronym L10N or l10n (as in: "L", followed by ten more letters, and then "N")

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Get the current language in device

How can we get the current language selected in the Android device?
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How can I get the current date and time in UTC or GMT in Java?

When I create a new Date object, it is initialized to the current time but in the local timezone. How can I get the current date and time in GMT?
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Change app language programmatically in Android

Is it possible to change the language of an app programmatically while still using Android resources? If not, is it possible to request a resource in an specific language? I would like to let the user change the language of the app from the app.
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What is the significance of 1/1/1753 in SQL Server?

Why 1753? What do they have against 1752? My great great great great great great great grandfather would be very offended.
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JavaScript for detecting browser language preference

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 do I read this value using JavaScript? Same problem for Firefox. I'm not able to…
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What is the list of supported languages/locales on Android?

I'd like to know what to name my folder for different languages. Where can I find the supported list of languages on Android?
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Exception messages in English?

We are logging any exceptions that happen in our system by writing the Exception.Message to a file. However, they are written in the culture of the client. And Turkish errors don't mean a lot to me. So how can we log any error messages in English…
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How to use localization in C#

I just can't seem to get localization to work. I have a class library. Now I want to create resx files in there, and return some values based on the thread culture. How can I do that?
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How to force NSLocalizedString to use a specific language

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 ?
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Schema for a multilanguage database

I'm developing a multilanguage software. As far as the application code goes, localizability is not an issue. We can use language specific resources and have all kinds of tools that work well with them. But what is the best approach in defining a…
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Best way to determine user's locale within browser

I have a website (Flash) localized into a dozen of languages and I want to auto-define a default value depending on the user's browser settings in order to minimize the steps to access the content. FYI, I cannot use server-scripts due to proxy…
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What's NSLocalizedString equivalent in Swift?

Is there an Swift equivalent of NSLocalizedString(...)? In Objective-C, we usually use: NSString *string = NSLocalizedString(@"key", @"comment"); How can I achieve the same in Swift? I found a function: func NSLocalizedString( key: String, …
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Is it possible to update a localized storyboard's strings?

I localized a part of my application with creating a base.lproj storyboard and 3 string files for it. It was a month ago and after that I added new view controller to app, but this controller's buttons and labels not appear in string files Is it…
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Localization and internationalization, what's the difference?

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…
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Lint: How to ignore " is not translated in " errors?

I can't compile/debug our Android app, because the localization files are not perfect yet. My IDE's validation tool Lint create errors saying: newCardsOrderVals is not translated in ar, bg, ca, cs Compiling/installing/running with Ant works fine,…
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