Internationalization and localization

We can have internationalized and localized dashboards, and these are based on the i18n jQuery plugin. When we need to translate a dashboard, we need to create multiple files in the same folder as the dashboard, all of the .properties files.

The first one is messages_supported_languages.properties, where we need to specify the languages that will be supported. This will dictate the files and languages that should be read. If we want to be able to provide transactions in Portuguese (pt) and English (en), we use:

pt
en

Here we should have <language> and/or <language>_<COUNTRY>, where <language> is the lowercase code for the language and <COUNTRY> is the uppercase country code.

The i18n properties files will be key/value ...

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