internationalizing your application
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Talk presented at CakeFest 2011, in Manchester-UK.TRANSCRIPT
INTERNATIONALIZING YOUR APPLICATION
by Renan Gonçalves
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WHO IS THIS GUY?
Software Engineer
TrueServer B.V.
CakePHP since 2007
Contributing since 2008
Brazilian
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LOCALIZATION
Adapting or converting the application to be used on a particular locale
Locale defines:
User’s language
Country
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LOCALE
en
en_US
cs_CZ.UTF-8
pt_BR@CE
language[_territory][.charset][@modifier]
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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 realizehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/En-GB-oed#Language_tag_comparison
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INTERNATIONALIZATION
Supporting international data
Text Content
Numbers
Currencies
Dates / Times
Calendars
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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
Audio
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WRITING CONVENTIONS
Date/time format
Different calendars
Time zones
Number formatting
Difference in symbols
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CULTURE
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CULTURE
Images and colors
Telephone numbers
Currency
Symbols, format
Weights and measures
Government assigned numbers
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OTHERS
National variants of languages
Local content
Order of sorting (collation)
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WHY CARE?
World, 7 billion.China, 1.3 billion. US, 312 million. Brazil, 190 million. UK, 62 million. Netherlands, 17 million.
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OKAY, LETS RULE THE WORLDSUPPORT ALL LOCALES!
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NOT THAT EASY!
Countries in the world (249)
Languages in the world (6,309)
+ variants
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lists_of_languages
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lists_of_countries_and_territories
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FEEL AT HOME
Small changes, big impact
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PERSONAL NAMES AROUND THE WORLD
Björk Guðmundsdóttir (Icelandic)
Isa bin Osman (Malay)
John Quincy Adams
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PERSONAL NAMES AROUND THE WORLD
http://www.w3.org/International/questions/qa-personal-names
First name Middle name Last nameRenan Gonçalves Cardoso de Lima
First name Last nameRenan Gonçalves Cardoso de Lima
Initials Between names Last nameR. G. C. de Lima
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PERSONAL NAMES AROUND THE WORLD
Full nameRenan Gonçalves Cardoso de Lima
What should we call you?Renan
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PERSONAL NAMES AROUND THE WORLD
Björk Guðmundsdóttir (Icelandic)
Ms. Björk or Ms. Björk Guðmundsdóttir
Isa bin Osman (Malay)
Mr. Isa
John Quincy Adams
Mr. Adams
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HOW?
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PROBLEMS
The context can change
Hard to find exactly what you want
Hard to know what it means
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PLURAL
https://developer.mozilla.org/en/Localization_and_Plurals
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CAKEPHP WAY
Using i18n and L10n libraries
Using Translate Behavior
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I18N
Others functions: __d(), __dn(), __dc(), __dcn(), __c()http://book.cakephp.org/view/1229/Internationalizing-Your-Application
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I18N
$ cake i18n extract
Locale/default.pot
#: FileName.php:lineNumbermsgid "Welcome to our application!"msgstr ""
#: FileName.php:lineNumbermsgid "You have %d item in your basket."msgid_plural "You have %d items in your basket."msgstr[0] ""msgstr[1] ""
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POEDIT
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I18N
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TRANSLATE BEHAVIOR
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TRANSLATE BEHAVIOR
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L10N
Manage the locales
Identify the locale
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L10N
Request
HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE
IP to country (GeoIP Lite)
URL parameter
book.cakephp.org/pt
URL
book.cakephp.jp
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GOODIES
Localized plugin
Localized validation
https://github.com/cakephp/localized
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TROUBLESHOOTING
Right encoding
unicode
html metatag
database charset
file charset
Configure::write(‘App.encoding’, ‘UTF-8’);
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QUESTIONS?
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THANK YOU!
@renan_saddam on twitter and #cakephp
http://github.com/renansaddam
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