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• allan Posts: 64,520Questions: 1Answers: 10,664 Site admin

  August 2016 Answer ✓

  No sorry. The strings from the de.json file would be used in preference to the local ones.

  I recognise that this isn't particularly useful and it will be corrected in the next major version.

  In the mean time you would need to make the Ajax call to get the language file yourself, modify the object as needed and then pass it into language.

  Allan
• halloei Posts: 23Questions: 6Answers: 0

  November 2016

  I'm needing the exact same thing right now. Will use the workaround then. Thanks.
• Kar.ma Posts: 1Questions: 0Answers: 0

  May 2017 edited May 2017

  I needed the same. The workaround was a bit complicated to find, but the final solution is pretty straightforward.

  My previous javascript code was:

  dataTableMesi = $('#tabellaMesi').DataTable({
    "searching": false,
    "language": {
      "url": "datatables/italian.lang",
      "sLengthMenu": "Visualizza _MENU_ mesi",
    },
    data: dataSetMesi,
    columns: myColumnsMesi
  });
  

  Now I replaced it with:

  function doDataTableMesi(lang_ita_mod){
    dataTableMesi = $('#tabellaMesi').DataTable({
      "searching": false,
      "language": lang_ita_mod,
      data: dataSetMesi,
      columns: myColumnsMesi
    });
  }
  $.ajax({
    dataType: "json",
    url: "datatables/italian.lang",
    data: "",
    success: function(data){
      var lang_ita_mod = data;
      lang_ita_mod.sLengthMenu = "Visualizza _MENU_ mesi";
      doDataTableMesi(lang_ita_mod);
    }
  });
  
• allan Posts: 64,520Questions: 1Answers: 10,664 Site admin

  May 2017

  That's a good way of doing it - thanks for posting your solution.

  Allan