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Improvements #13380: Extend list of tutorials

Create a tutorial for localization

Added by Matthias Van Ceulebroeck 14 days ago.

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01/07/2025
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Recently a support email was asking about the correct way to implement localization.
While they were very close to most items being correct, there seemed to be a fundamental misunderstanding in how Wt does the substitution, and subsequent refreshing of the strings when the locale changes (i.e. language selection).

We should create a short tutorial walking through:

  • how an application uses its resource bundles
  • advantages and disadvantages of approaches, like using a WContainerWidget, and adding content to it in code, or specifying a WTemplate, should be made clear here.
  • how `WTemplate uses its functions
  • how WString localization functions (and how it doesn't) (i.e. having a localized string, and changing/appending content will result in a literal, which is no longer localized)

This tutorial will come with some inline code, and the code as a whole should be made public as well, so it can be experimented with.

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