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Change language names in language selecter

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Jonas Nielsen
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Posted on 10/09/2024 09:31:50

Hi,

Is there a way to change and translate the names of the languages that apears in the language selecter? 

1) I want to use the local language name. e.g. "Danish" is the same no matter what language I select.
Preferable this should be "Dansk" - show in the native form and not English. 

2) The Spanish language apears like this: "Spanish, International Sort". I would prefer it to just say "Spanish" as the current name is unnecessarily long.

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Nicolai Pedersen Dynamicweb Employee
Nicolai Pedersen
Posted on 10/09/2024 15:06:47
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Hi Jonas

Currently you van only change that directly in the template:

\Files\Templates\Designs\Swift\Swift_Preferences.cshtml

There is this line of code in line 254: 

<span class="align-middle">@language.Area.DisplayName</span>

Which can be changed to one fo these:

<span class="align-middle">@language.Area.Name</span>
<span class="align-middle">@language.Area.Title</span>
<span class="align-middle">@language.Area.CultureInfo.NativeName</span>

Using either the name of the website from the backend, the title specified on the website settings or the "Native name" of the region info selected on the website settings.

The last option will give you the name of the country in its native name - and some additiional info. You might be able to do this to get only the name:

<span class="align-middle">@language.Area.CultureInfo.NativeName.Split('(')[0].Trim()</span>

BR Nicolai

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Jonas Nielsen
Posted on 30/09/2024 13:50:19
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Hi Nicolai,

Thank you for your answer. THat helped for the Drop down list.

Is it possible to also the same for the modal used on mobile? Is this somewhere in the same file? 

Thanks in advance. 

 
Nicolai Pedersen Dynamicweb Employee
Nicolai Pedersen
Posted on 01/10/2024 12:12:26
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Yes, it is the same template, line 124:

<option hreflang="@language.Area.CultureInfo.TwoLetterISOLanguageName" value="@preferencePageId" @selectedLanguage>@language.Area.DisplayName</option>

You can change it to this:

<option hreflang="@language.Area.CultureInfo.TwoLetterISOLanguageName" value="@preferencePageId" @selectedLanguage>@language.Area.DisplayName.Split('(')[0].Trim()</option>

BR Nicolai

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Jonas Nielsen
Posted on 02/10/2024 08:07:37
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Hi Nicolai,

Excellent. It worked. Thank you very much for your help. I appreciate it.

 

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