I have a question about Windows Phone localization. I checked culture and language support for windows phone, for English, there's only English (United States) and English (United Kingdom). I also want to ad English support for Canada and Australia, so how can I do that? Also The display language setting in emulator only has English (United States) and English (United Kingdom) for English, so how can I test other English countries such as Canada and Australia? Thanks!
Fei
Windows Phone 7 has a limited support matrix right now for culture/language combinations. You can see this language support list on MSDN. I would recommend coding to en-CA for Canada if you desire it.
There's some guidance on how to support non-supported languages in WP7 from Microsoft if you view "How do I localize for a language that isn't supported?" section. You're not going to like it though. Here's the snippet of the steps.
Hard code your app to be written in the unsupported language, if you don't plan on supporting more languages in the future. OR, create
your default AppResources.resx file and put your unsupported language
strings in there, if you plan on supporting more languages in the
future or will support additional languages in your submission.
Set your neutral language to one of the supported display languages. For example, 'English (United States)'.
On App Hub, you will be prompted to input metadata and a description for the neutral language you chose (for the above example,
you'll be prompted for English). You must include the following three
items in the 'Detailed description' field to pass certification:
A note, such as ‘The language of this application is [unsupported
language name]’. This note must be written in the same language as the
neutral language. For example, if you chose 'English (United States)'
as your neutral language, the note must be written in English (United
States). This note must be the first item in the ‘Detailed
description’ field. Your app description, in the same language as the
neutral language. Your app description, in the unsupported language.
I would also recommend sticking it in an en-CA file so you can easily swap to it if/when support comes.
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We have a project were we have Resources.resx, Resources.fr.resx and Resources.de.resx.
Let's say the application is set to use Swiss German de-CH. When a string resource is missing for german language I want to see that string in English in my application.
Doing several tests we have noticed that when a string is missing the fallback language string value is set to the system language value.
For example if my german string is missing I want it to being shown in english, but it is being shown in french, which is my windows current language.
Our application is an UWP application.
Does anyone know why this is happening and how to solve it?
EDIT:
I made several tests changing my system culture:
OS (windows) culture english and UWP language fallback value to french: missing translations for german are being set in french.
OS (windows) culture spanish and UWP language fallback value to english: missing translation for german are being set in english.
OS (windows) culture swiss french and UWP language fallback to english: missing translations for german are being set in french which is OS language.
For example if my German string is missing I want it to being shown in English, but it is being shown in French, which is my windows current language.
It is by design, if you have not specific app's language, and if miss translation, it will set the default language base on your system(app contains resource matched with system). And if you app does not contain the language that matched with system. it will direct to app's default language in the app's package manifeat file.
If you want to set the default as English when missing translation, you could set the app's default language as en.
For more please refer this document, and here is official code sample that you could refer.
i've started using Bing API translator. all the things is ok but when I tried to translate to it with culture code 'fr-ca',fr-FR then it is translating only using language code 'fr' not with culture code (ca, FR) 'fr-ca', 'fr-FR'.
When I called this API method to translate
translationQuery.Execute().ToList();
throws this exception :
--------An error occurred while processing this request.
and the inner exception is :
--------"Parameter: To has an invalid pattern of characters"
source : System.Data.Services.Client
can any one help me about this problem? and tell me how to translate text with culture code with anyway either API or something else ?
Thanks In advance
sunil
Thanks for your response.
I have more than 10 files and each files have 1000 words that needs to transalate into another languages on bases of culture code not only language code.
English en-GB British English
en-US American English
en-CA Canadian English
Spanish es-ES Castilian Spanish (as written and spoken in Spain)
es-MX Mexican Spanish
es-AR Argentine Spanish
es-CO Colombian Spanish
Portuguese pt-PT European Portuguese (as written and spoken in Portugal)
pt-BR Brazilian Portuguese
Chinese zh-CN Mainland China, simplified characters
zh-TW Taiwan, traditional characters
zh-HK Hong Kong, traditional characters
Instead of doing translation manually is there any others way to translate e.g(es-ES,es-MX,es-CO, es-AR ) ?. since its langauge code is same for all eg:-(es) but have different culture code for each languages. So it may be case that some words have different meaning in es-es and have diffent means in es-MX, es-Co etc.
it would be helpful if found a way to translate on bases of culture code?
Thanks in Advance
Sunil
The reason is that Bing translator doesn't support Canadian French, only Standard French:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh456380.aspx
Microsoft Translator continually adds to the list of supported languages for the Translation and Text to Speech methods. You can always obtain the current list of available language codes using the
GetLanguagesForTranslate() or GetLanguagesForSpeak() methods. These methods will return a language code. You can translate that language code into a friendly name in any of the supported languages using the GetLanguageNames() method. Below are the friendly names in English - you can retrieve them in any of the listed languages using GetLanguageNames(). Here is the list (as of February 2014):
...
fr French
If you want to use Canadian French, you'll have to perform the relevant word swaps afterwards manually.
Ss an aside, Google Translate also only supports Standard French.
As in the subject, i'm designing a system that will accept documents in various languages, submitters want to be able to say this was 'written in American English' or 'written in United Kingdom English' (which of course is just 'english' but that's perhaps beside the point as it's still a distinct dialect)
I've been looking at ISO-639-3 but that doesn't appear to account for the 'American English' addition
Has anyone got any ideas?
As you mention ISO 639-3, it seems that you are looking for language codes. Then use en-US for US English, en-GB for British English.
Reference: BCP 47, especially the “Tags for Identifying Languages” part, which is currently RFC 5646.
When I run any project in Visual Studio 2010 the language gets automatically changed to English in language bar of win 7. And when I use the code
Message Box.Show(Thread.Current Thread.Current Culture.Name);
in button event handler. If i select English language or Arabic or any think in the language bar Message Box.Show is print only English
any one help me please
You need to create Resource file for each language, e.g., one for English, another one for Arabic and so on.
You can get more information about .NET Localization from below links:
.NET Localization, Part 1: Resource Managers
.NET Localization, Part 2: Creating Satellite Assemblies
.NET Localization, Part 3: Localizing Text
.NET Localization, Part 4: Localizing Units
Is there a way that I can let the end user type text in German / French in a text box for a c# asp.net website. Is there any available solution for the same,
Thank You
You really need to read this:
http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/Unicode.html
Are you talking about transliterating from German/French into English? If so, that doesn't make much sense. Transliteration is used to convert one system of text/writing into another, like Greek to English or German to Chinese. With French, German, and English, there is no need to transliterate because they all use the same alphabet/writing system.
Was your question more about how to add a transliteration feature a la Google and you just used French and German as an example?