Localization

By localizing your application, you can ensure that your application works around the world in different locales.

This feature is optional.

To localize a Tizen Web application:

  1. Create a directory for each locale, follow these steps.

    Create a directory for each locale that has localized content under the locales directory in package root. The locale names are defined in the W3C IANA Language Subtag Registry.

    The Web Runtime loads the proper resource for the current locale according to the W3C widget using the following mark-up:

    ┬index.html
└locales
  └en
    └language.js
  └ko
    └language.js

  2. Create a common JS object for language strings.

    Define a global JS object in the resource file. In the following example, the JS object is LANG_JSON_DATA. This object defines the key-value pairs for localized strings.

    • en/language.js:
      LANG_JSON_DATA = {
   'hello': 'hello'
}
    • ko/language.js:
      LANG_JSON_DATA = {
   'hello': '안녕'
}

    “hello” is the key for the localized string, to be replaced by the value from the appropriate language.

  3. Load language resources.

    To load language resources, add the <script> element containing the language resource file in your index.html file:

    <script src="language.js"></script>

    The Web Runtime loads the language.js file for the current locale and you can use the defined string element to display localized content. For example:

    log('hello=' + LANG_JSON_DATA['hello']);
    Note

    When the Web Runtime fails to find a file in a local folder, it searches for the file according to the procedure in the W3C specification. If the Web Runtime still fails to find a file in a local folder, it retrieves the folders that match the parent subtag, and prioritizes the files in the subfolders over the files in the local folders closer to the root of the widget package. If after all this, the Web Runtime still cannot find the file, an unexpected problem can occur.
    To avoid problems, leave a default file in the root folder.

    The following table lists the acceptable locale folder names.

    Table: Locale folder names

    Language Folder name
    Albanian sq-al
    Arabic ar-ae
    Armenian hy-am
    Assamese as-in
    Azerbaijani az-az
    Basque eu-es
    Bengali bn-in
    Bulgarian bg-bg
    Catalan ca-es
    Chinese Simplified (China) zh-cn
    Chinese Traditional (Hong Kong) zh-hk
    Chinese Traditional (Taiwan) zh-tw
    Croatian hr-hr
    Czech cs-cz
    Danish da-dk
    Dutch nl-nl
    Dutch (Belgium) nl-be
    English (UK) en-gb
    English (US) en-us
    English (Australia) en-au
    English (Canada) en-ca
    English (Ireland) en-ie
    English (New Zealand) en-nz
    English (Philippines) en-ph
    English (South Africa) en-za
    Estonian et-ee
    Farsi fa-ir
    Filipino tl-ph
    Finnish fi-fi
    French (Canada) fr-ca
    French (France) fr-fr
    French (Belgium) fr-be
    French (Switzerland) fr-ch
    Galician gl-es
    Georgian ka-ge
    German de-de
    German (Switzerland) de-ch
    German (Austria) de-at
    Greek el-gr
    Gujarati gu-in
    Hebrew he-il
    Hindi hi-in
    Hungarian hu-hu
    Icelandic is-is
    Indonesian id-id
    Irish ga-ie
    Italian it-it
    Japanese ja-jp
    Kannada kn-ca
    Kazakh kk-kz
    Khmer km-kh
    Korean ko-kr
    Lao lo-la
    Latvian lv-lv
    Lithuanian lt-lt
    Macedonian mk-mk
    Malay ms-mw
    Malayalam ml-my
    Marathi mr-in
    Myanmar my-mm
    Nepali ne-np
    Norwegian nb-no
    Odia or-in
    Polish pl-pl
    Portuguese (Brazil) pt-br
    Portuguese (Portugal) pt-pt
    Punjabi pa-pk
    Romanian ro-ro
    Russian ru-ru
    Serbian sr-rs
    Sinhala si-lk
    Slovakian sk-sk
    Slovenian sl-si
    Spanish (Spain) es-es
    Spanish (Latin America) es-us
    Swedish sv-se
    Tamil ta-in
    Telugu te-in
    Thai th-th
    Turkish tr-tr
    Ukrainian uk-ua
    Urdu ur-pk
    Uzbekistan uz-uz
    Vietnamese vi-vn
  • Dependencies
    • Tizen 2.4 and Higher
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