Internationalizing your application

S INTERNATIONALIZING YOUR APPLICATION by Renan GonçalvesSunday, September 4, 11

WHO IS THIS GUY? Software Engineer TrueServer B.V. CakePHP since 2007 Contributing since 2008 BrazilianSunday, September 4, 11

LOCALIZATION Adapting or converting the application to be used on a particular locale Locale deﬁnes: User’s language CountrySunday, September 4, 11

LOCALE language[_territory][.charset][@modiﬁer] en en_US cs_CZ.UTF-8 pt_BR@CESunday, September 4, 11

LOCALE en_GB en_GB@oed en_CA en_US analyse analyse analy[sz]e analyze behaviour behaviour behaviour behavior centre centre centre center defence defence defence defense globalisation globalization globalization globalization realise realize realize realize http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/En-GB-oed#Language_tag_comparisonSunday, September 4, 11

INTERNATIONALIZATION Supporting international data Text Content Numbers Currencies Dates / Times CalendarsSunday, September 4, 11

LANGUAGE Different systems of numerals decimal (10), vigesimal (20), octogesimal (80), etc Writing direction left to right and right to left Graphical representation of texts AudioSunday, September 4, 11

WRITING CONVENTIONS Date/time format Different calendars Time zones Number formatting Difference in symbolsSunday, September 4, 11

CULTURESunday, September 4, 11

CULTURE Images and colors Telephone numbers Currency Symbols, format Weights and measures Government assigned numbersSunday, September 4, 11

OTHERS National variants of languages Local content Order of sorting (collation)Sunday, September 4, 11

WHY CARE? World, 7 billion. China, 1.3 billion. US, 312 million. Brazil, 190 million. UK, 62 million. Netherlands, 17 million.Sunday, September 4, 11

OKAY, LETS RULE THE WORLD SUPPORT ALL LOCALES!Sunday, September 4, 11

NOT THAT EASY! Countries in the world (249) Languages in the world (6,309) + variants http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lists_of_countries_and_territories http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lists_of_languagesSunday, September 4, 11

FEEL AT HOME Small changes, big impactSunday, September 4, 11

PERSONAL NAMES AROUND THE WORLD Björk Guðmundsdóttir (Icelandic) Isa bin Osman (Malay) John Quincy AdamsSunday, September 4, 11

PERSONAL NAMES AROUND THE WORLD First name Middle name Last name Renan Gonçalves Cardoso de Lima First name Last name Renan Gonçalves Cardoso de Lima Initials Between names Last name R. G. C. de Lima http://www.w3.org/International/questions/qa-personal-namesSunday, September 4, 11

PERSONAL NAMES AROUND THE WORLD Full name Renan Gonçalves Cardoso de Lima What should we call you? RenanSunday, September 4, 11

PERSONAL NAMES AROUND THE WORLD Björk Guðmundsdóttir (Icelandic) Ms. Björk or Ms. Björk Guðmundsdóttir Isa bin Osman (Malay) Mr. Isa John Quincy Adams Mr. AdamsSunday, September 4, 11

HOW?Sunday, September 4, 11

PROBLEMS The context can change Hard to ﬁnd exactly what you want Hard to know what it meansSunday, September 4, 11

PLURAL https://developer.mozilla.org/en/Localization_and_PluralsSunday, September 4, 11

CAKEPHP WAY Using i18n and L10n libraries Using Translate BehaviorSunday, September 4, 11

I18N Others functions: __d(), __dn(), __dc(), __dcn(), __c() http://book.cakephp.org/view/1229/Internationalizing-Your-ApplicationSunday, September 4, 11

I18N $ cake i18n extract Locale/default.pot #: FileName.php:lineNumber msgid "Welcome to our application!" msgstr "" #: FileName.php:lineNumber msgid "You have %d item in your basket." msgid_plural "You have %d items in your basket." msgstr[0] "" msgstr[1] ""Sunday, September 4, 11

POEDITSunday, September 4, 11

I18NSunday, September 4, 11

TRANSLATE BEHAVIORSunday, September 4, 11

L10N Manage the locales Identify the localeSunday, September 4, 11

L10N Request HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE IP to country (GeoIP Lite) URL parameter book.cakephp.org/pt URL book.cakephp.jpSunday, September 4, 11

GOODIES Localized plugin Localized validation https://github.com/cakephp/localizedSunday, September 4, 11

TROUBLESHOOTING Right encoding unicode html metatag database charset ﬁle charset Conﬁgure::write(‘App.encoding’, ‘UTF-8’);Sunday, September 4, 11

QUESTIONS?Sunday, September 4, 11

THANK YOU! renan.saddam@cakephp.org @renan_saddam on twitter and #cakephp http://github.com/renansaddamSunday, September 4, 11

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