Re: [tlug] Language localization in Javacript

[Lewske Wada <ryu@example.com>]

On Sep 27, 2011, at 7:31 PM, Martin G wrote:
> ... but I just can't think of how I switch them up at the point when I
> want to display one or the other, because the switch involves changing
> the name of the variable being called.
> There must be a simple way to do this...?


I think you may want to do this with something server-side in addition to javascript,
but if it's the only way you can do like this :

switch (navigator.language.substr(0, 2)) {
  case "en" :
    document.writeln("Hello.");
    break;
  case "ja" :
    document.writeln("こんにちは.");
    break;
}

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Lewske Wada
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