GWT in Action, Second Edition

Chapter 13. Internationalization, localization, and accessibility

 

This chapter covers

• Making your user interface as widely usable as possible
• Handling pluralization and user-defined differences in messages
• Presenting times, dates, currencies, and numbers as users expect

 

In this chapter we’ll explore how to make your application as familiar to as many people as possible, through internationalization and localization. Using those techniques, you can present the interface in a user’s own language—with familiar date, time, and currency formats—and even display it in the expected direction (some users may read from right to left).

We’ll look at both of GWT’s provided approaches to internationalization (i18n)—static and dynamic—as ...