Translation support in Metro Style Apps

Question

hi,

Suppose im developing a metro style app, which has text information in English language. So how a person, who dont understand English language, will read text in my application?

How he will be able to translate the text into french, Spanish or any other language he wants to? How can I, as developer of application can add such support into my app?

 

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Mustzerone

Answer 1

Here's a nice little post about how to wire up localized string resources:

http://www.jonathanantoine.com/2012/03/13/winjs-how-ressources-works-globalization/

From there, you can either pay someone to translate your resw or resjson strings professionally, or use something like Bing Translator to do it yourself (and the result will probably be hilarious).

There's no current API in windows for automatically translating something.

Answer 2

The Application Resources sample covers the use of resources in Metro style apps with HTML5/JavaScript in detail:

http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/windowsapps/Application-resources-and-cd0c6eaa

Once your app is using resources, the Multilingual App Toolkit will help you package them to send them off for localization and to add the translations to your application once you get them back:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/apps/hh848309

-- Erik