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How to handle the multilingual websites?

SE123

Hi,

In Livesite how can I make a component generic ?
Let's say I have a component which I can use in any site but if my sites is in different languages say EN, FR, SW how can my component come to know which language should pick at run time to display the labels etc.

It would be great if someone can also explain that which is the best approach to design multilingual sites in team site content center?

Thanks

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nipper

There are several ways. This does not translate well into a soundbite however, so if you think you will get enough information here to solve the issue you are sadly mistaken.

First you have to look at how many languages you are going to support ? A couple ? A bunch ? I did an SP implementation where we had 3 languages in different datums in the .page file. Certainly not a scalable model, but for a small number of languages (and no translation utility) a good approach. Most commonly you have different folders or different branches for different languages. Since LS cannot use some of the normal TS multibranch functionality, using different branches becomes problematic.

You also have to know how are things getting translated. Can you use .page files or must you use DCRs to get things translated. That is a significant issue.

Shwe01

i have a requirement to fetch same content in 3 different languages based on locale of the browser automatically. Can someone help how this can be done?

MSelvan

@Shwe01-i think you can use site precontroller.Get the locale in java then based on the local you can redirect your page.

nipper

i have a requirement to fetch same content in 3 different languages based on locale of the browser automatically. Can someone help how this can be done?

This is OOTB functionality if you use DCRs read the SP manual.

Shwe01

I implemented same as given in SP manual but still not able to fetch the locale specific dcr in runtime. Sorry if i am mistaken,but by runtime i mean cert server. i am unable to understand how Livesite will read the locale of the browser and how will it fetch "dcr_locale " from the same path as the default dcr??

Arundevid

which version of TS ?

7.2.X and above Interwoven has default functionality to manage the multi lang sites.

7.1 and below we have to write the custom code to achieve

External java calss to read you DCR based on the locale.

Rick Poulin

Let's say I have a component which I can use in any site but if my sites is in different languages say EN, FR, SW how can my component come to know which language should pick at run time to display the labels etc.

If you're on 7.2+, build your sites in the same branch using the SitePub localization features. Then, write a LabelsExternal and wire it into all components. Write the LabelsExternal to read the right ResourceBundle for context.getLocale(). Your resource bundle can be properties files (easiest), XML files, DB connection, etc. Build it this way and it extends to however many locales you ever need.

i have a requirement to fetch same content in 3 different languages based on locale of the browser automatically.

LiveSite has a LocaleDeterminer bean that does this for you. It lists different ways (in order of priority) to resolve context.getLocale(). Just override that bean and bump LocaleFromRequest to the top of that list. Then, your externals will have knowledge of the browser's preferred locale and your code can react accordingly.

Default values (from livesite/conf/resources/resource-config.xml):
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class="com.interwoven.livesite.runtime.impl.locale.BaseLocaleDeterminer">

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