Monday, March 8, 2010

Getting label text in different languages

Sometimes it is needed to get a label text in a language that is different from the current one. To do that the labelId2String method of the SysLabel class can be used.
Example:
SysLabel::labelId2String(literalstr('@SYS1'), 'en-us');
Gives: Time transactions
SysLabel::labelId2String(literalstr('@SYS1'), 'de');
Gives: Zeit Transaktionen

9 comments:

  1. thanks can be handy,

    Btw Do you know any way to catch the conversion of labels

    So if a label does not exist in the user language we can display it in the English language.

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  2. There is no such method to my knowledge. The problem is that it is not clear which language should be used as fallback one. You say ‘en-us’ which is reasonable, however it gives a special status to the English language which is not correct from the localizability point of view.

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  3. Well this could be a parameter, in my case English should be given a special status since it's our official group language

    I made some tests, when you do for example

    str msg = "@AAA1"

    If you use the debugger you can see immediatly that the label is converted to txt when the msg variable is instantiated

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