Internationalising doesn't work in IE8

tantebootsy

Hi @all,

although we set lang="de" within the html-tag IE8 doesn't switch to german regarding the labels. It's showing everything in english. I wonder how datatables determines the language to be shown. Does it check any browser-settings and doesn't take the "lang"-attribute into account? Does anybody know how this issue can be solved?

Any help would be greatly appreciated :)

Thx,
Michael

allan

> I wonder how datatables determines the language to be shown

It doesn't - you need to tell it what to show using the oLanguage options: http://datatables.net/usage/i18n

Allan

tantebootsy

Hi Allan,

thx for your response.

I know these options and all browsers show the labels with the correct language (German) – except IE8 which is showing the labels with the default language I guess (English).

So I didn't mean I wondered how datatables determines _which_ labels to show but I wonder how it determines _in which language_ the labels shall be shown.

Michael

allan

As I say, it doesn't :-). You need to explicitly tell it what strings to use (it isn't really bothered about the language - its just displaying strings). So if you want it to display German strings, you need to feed it German strings.

Allan

tantebootsy

Sure, but datatables somehow detects the language and decides which language-strings to show. Otherwise the feature "internationalisation" wouldn't make sense I think. ;) And as I said the strings are shown correctly in FF, Safari etc. but not in IE8. So there must be some kind of detection ...

allan

> Sure, but datatables somehow detects the language and decides which language-strings to show.

I promise it doesn't :-). Might be nice if it did - but it doesn't. There isn't a single line of code in DataTables which does that. For example - load this page: http://datatables.net/release-datatables/examples/basic_init/zero_config.html . Its all in English with the default strings.

> Otherwise the feature "internationalisation" wouldn't make sense I think. ;)

I see your point - yes. I've used "internationalisation" in the sense that all language strings can be altered (be it to a different English string, or a string which is not English).

> And as I said the strings are shown correctly in FF, Safari etc. but not in IE8. So there must be some kind of detection ...

Not in DataTables core. Possibly in a layer that you are using above DataTables... We'd need a link to be able to see what is actually happening.

Allan