Appendix E - Internationalization and Localization

connectDaily uses the browser-specified Locale strings to determine the following things:

• Names of the days of the week
• Names of the months of the year.
• Format to input dates in.
• Formatting for time strings when times are converted from one time zone to another.
• Starting day of the week.

In other words, if your browser is set to a preferred language of es_MX, you will see the days of the week, and months of the year in Spanish. The calendar conventions including the starting day of the week, the time formats, and the formats for entering dates would follow the locale conventions for Mexico.

Tip

If your browsers send the wrong language preference and cannot be changed, you can add the parameter:

LocaleOverride=ll,cc

to your configuration.properties. Replace ll with the two letter code for your language, and CC with your two letter country code. For example,

LocaleOverride=es,mx

This LocaleOverride will force connectDaily to ALWAYS ignore the browser's Accept-Language header.

Additionally, the captions for the pages are drawn from an external resource bundle. EMail templates are also stored externally from the application. This means that you can easily create a new translation of connectDaily and have multiple translations live at the same time. Put simply, you could have Spanish, French, German, and English all co-existing on the same server. The one drawback is that event titles and description are not automatically translated.

The sections below provide detailed instructions on how to create a translation of connectDaily.