Document revision: 2024-10-28
Refers to WEBDLG2 version: B0840 2409-1
WEBDLG2 allows to localize the default text strings used in the login and
message dialogs, i.e., adapt the text to other languages/regions.
To do so, a JavaScript document needs to be created and loaded into the
HTML documents.
The eq.strings() JavaScript API is used to install a translation.
Just to demonstrate this, the example below would install the default
strings exactly as built-in:
eq.strings({
login : {
prompt : "Please enter your login and password to start:",
label : {
name : "&Login:",
pass : "&Password:"
},
ok : "L&ogin",
cancel : "&Cancel",
save : "&Save login"
},
message : {
ok : "&Dismiss",
cancel : "&Cancel",
dlgListen : "<html>Waiting for DLG connection on port"
}
});
The first eq.strings() argument is a structured object specifying
the various strings used in the login and message dialogs (login
and message properties).
Example for a French translation:
eq.strings({
login : {
prompt : "Veuillez entrer votre identifiant et votre mot de passe pour commencer:",
label : {
name : "&Identifiant:",
pass : "&Mot de passe:"
},
ok : "C&ommencer",
cancel : "&Annuler",
save : "&Enregistrer"
},
message : {
ok : "&Rejeter",
cancel : "&Annuler",
dlgListen : "<html>En attente de connexion DLG sur le port"
}
}, 'fr-FR');
Example for a German translation:
eq.strings({
login : {
prompt : "Bitte Benutzernamen und Kennwort eingeben für:",
label : {
name : "&Benutzername:",
pass : "&Kennwort:"
},
ok : "&Einloggen",
cancel : "&Abbruch",
save : "&Login speichern"
},
message : {
ok : "&Schließen",
cancel : "&Abbruch",
dlgListen : "<html>Warte auf DLG Verbindung auf Port"
}
}, 'de-DE');
The optional second eq.strings() argument is an IETF BCP 47
language tag, for example:
| en-US | English (United States) |
| en-GB | English (United Kingdom) |
| fr-FR | French (France) |
| de-DE | German (Germany) |
The default strings are set if the second argument is omitted.
The default strings are used when the strings for a specific
locale are not installed.
The eq.strings() API may be invoked multiple times if multiple
translations should be installed.
To install the translations, create a text file named, for example,
eq-strings.js, containing one or multiple eq.strings()
invocation(s). Store the file in the web server document hierarchy.
Please note: The file needs to be UTF-8 encoded.
To use the translations in your WEBDLG2 applications,
configure an URI in the
eloqwebd2.uri file for the
directory containing the translation files, for example:
[/plugin]
Path = /directory/in/web/server/document/hierarchy
This configuration associates the /plugin URI with the directory
containing the translations in the file system. Now the
application can be configured to
load the translations by setting
PluginURL
as shown below:
PluginURL = /plugin/eq-strings.js
Alternatively, the translation files may be integrated into the
HTML documents. This is necessary
when using an external web server.
For example:
<script async
src="/path/to/eq-strings.js">
</script>
As shown here, using the async attribute is recommended
to avoid that the script potentially delays loading the document
(1).
Technical note:
IETF BCP 47 language tags start with a language code, for example
fr (French), optionally followed by a region code, for example
FR (France), separated with a hyphen (-).
When the second eq.strings() argument is set, for example, to
fr-FR, the specified translation is used when the
locale is either fr
or fr-FR.
If multiple translations are installed for the same language code, for
example fr-FR (French [France]) and
fr-CA (French [Canada]), and the
locale is fr,
the translation installed first is used.
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