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I18N & L10N Internationalization & Localization

I18N & L10N

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✦ I18N - Internationalization the process of making one app that works everywhere for every “locale”

✦L10N - Localization is the process of adapting to each locale

✦Locale - unlike language locale goes deeper it’s how we write our numbers, dates, phrase our sentences etc.

Translation

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✦Resource bundles installed in UIManager ✦Seamless to code… ✦But can be used manually ✦Missing MessageFormat functionality: This is the {0}

time ✦Cultural translations can be done on top: colors,

images, gender, politics…

Formatting

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✦L10NManager & com.codename1.l10n.SimpleDateFormat

✦Allow formatting dates and numbers based on locale, currency etc

Orientation

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✦RTL (Right to Left) or BiDi (Bi-directional) represents the problem posed by some ancient languages (Hebrew, Arabic etc.)

✦RTL languages are written from right to left but the numbers within (or english) is written from left to right (hence bidi)

✦ In these languages the entire UI should be flipped or it will look odd, this includes the alignment of the elements. Codename One does that implicitly

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