jQuery 18n plugin

Question

I've got a jQuery i18n plugin init:

jQuery.i18n.properties({
    name : 'appsConstants',
    path : '/gadgets/',
    mode : 'both',
    language : 'en'
});

How to take out the language variable into browser line like a parameter?

Do you mean you want the `language` property to be configurable in the URL? e.g. `example.com?language=en`? — James Allardice, Jun 26 '12 at 07:26
possible duplicate of [Get query string values in JavaScript](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/901115/get-query-string-values-in-javascript) — JJJ, Jun 26 '12 at 07:35
@Juhana, but thats parsing parameter, I believe there should be simple setting. Like on JSP: — Pilot, Jun 26 '12 at 07:46
Unfortunately there is no such thing built into JavaScript. You have to add for example the function in the accepted answer in the duplicate and then do `language: getParameterByName( 'locale' )`. — JJJ, Jun 26 '12 at 07:55

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Jun 26 '12 at 08:16

You have several options here:

Read the language from the URL path or an URL query parameter by parsing window.location
Set the language in a cookie
Generate your init Javascript dynamically on the server and set the language there (storing it in the session on the server).

score 0 · Answer 2 · edited May 07 '16 at 14:52

This article from Scott Hanselman talks about globalization (cultures/locale)

http://www.hanselman.com/blog/GlobalizationInternationalizationAndLocalizationInASPNETMVC3JavaScriptAndJQueryPart1.aspx

I've used that for making my jQuery aware of the users culture (for use with a datepicker amongst others) I also downloaded the i18n jQuery plugin and registered that.

I went with the "Slightly Less Cheesy - Meta Tag" solution for "detecting" locale and registered a

<meta name="accept-language" content="en-US">

in the head section, then I could utilize that tag in my jQuery to figure out what locale/language to use.

The article is slightly outdated so some of the javascript needs an update here and there as an example Globalization.js has changed from $.global. to Globalize. Bits and pieces like that you need to update to get it all working.

jQuery 18n plugin

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