Implementation of localizing App for different culture
What is Globalization and localization?
Globalization is the process of designing the application in such a way that it can be used by users from across the globe i.e. in multiple cultures.
The CultureInfo class holds culture-specific information, such as the associated language, sub-language, country/region, calendar, and cultural conventions. The cultures have a hierarchy, such that the parent of a specific culture is a neutral culture and the parent of a neutral culture is the InvariantCulture.
Neutral culture is a culture that is associated with a language but not with a country or region. A specific culture is a culture that is associated with both a language and a country or region. We specify the invariant culture by name by using an empty string (“ “) in the call to a CultureInfo instantiation method.
Localization is the process of customization of a product or service to meet the needs of a particular language, culture.
These two things go together.
Why is localization important?
Localization of product or service improves customer satisfaction, increases customer base, and helps to enter a new market.
The key point of making your application localizable is to separate the page content from your logic implementation.
When something needs to be displayed on a web page, never put them directly on the page file or in the backend logic. By giving the content a key, which can be linked to the real content for the proper language setting.
Localization in ASP.NET MVC:
ASP.NET MVC was built on top of the ASP.NET runtime so all features provided by ASP.NET can be used in MVC such as caching, session state, and localization.
In traditional ASP.NET Webforms application resource files are used to store the content of the application with different cultures and using the ResourceManager class to retrieve them which can be generated by Visual Studio automatically.
To understand Localization let’s have an example:
Here is the example of having a web page supported by two languages:
Read more to know Steps to implement the localization on an ASP.NET MVC web application.
Originally published at https://www.neovasolutions.com on May 8, 2020.
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