Ankur G35 Saxena wrote:
> Hi I have not been getting myself upto date on the latest version of
> webmacro, last I downloaded the api was in march of 2004. Now I have a
> task at hand where in I have to support languages like chinese, french
> and many more...
>
> How do i go about doing this? Anything special I have to do, some
> examples would be great. Also when I put text into the webmacro file
> from java, can I put any char(unicode for other languages) since I
> will picking these translated words from an XML file.
The usual approach in JSP-land seems to be creating a ResourceBundle
instance per session (assuming the language can be set by the client)
and accessing that in the page for all UI strings...
i.e. for "hello world":
<html>
<body>
<b>$UIResourceBundle.HELLOWORLD</b>
</body>
</html>
...I'm rust on ResourceBundle so it might not support get(Object).
Anyway the upshot of this is that you just need your servlet (or WM
template I suppose) to get the language from the HTTP headers if
possible, and then load the correct strings into a Map or similar, and
put that in the session.
Then in every page, in a common included header you can do:
#set $UIStrings = $Session.XXXXX
Where XXXX is where you get the stored Map from the session.
You could of course do this by creating Maps in a common WM template
(using #bean) containing all your translations so you don't have to mess
with other files / ResourceBundle loading schemes (never been a fan of
that mechanism).
Then you could put those into maps by ISO language code... preferably
trying to avoid it being done for every request (#macro / include as macro?)
$stringsByCountryCode.put( "en", $stringsEN);
$stringsByCountryCode.put( "fr", $stringsFR);
$stringsByCountryCode.put( "de", $stringsDE);
...and then in every page processing you get the strings you need by:
#set $UIStrings = $stringsByCountryCode.get($Session.XXXXX)
...and remember to check for null...
Cheers
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Marc Palmer wj...@wa...
Wangjammers - Java, J2ME and Web Consultants
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