Internationalisation Tips: localisation

Translating text dynamically generated at request time is more complicated than static non-changing text. Depending on the reason why the text needs to be flexible at request time means taking a different approach.
In the last post we looked at simple static text replacement where the text doesn’t change from request to request. But as soon [...]

The first major step to localising a website or web application is to translate all the static text strings into the preferred language. Static text being text that doesn’t change from request to request.
The typical approach to translating this text is to replace every piece of static text with a variable reference that points to [...]