Localization

To internationalize a Tizen Web application:

1. Create a directory for each locale.

   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"]);

   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 (中文 简体)	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)	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