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Re: [tlug] Language localization in Javacript



> var english = new Object ();
> english.l00001 = "hello";
> english.l00002 = "goodbye";
> var japanese = new Object ()
> japanese.l00001 = "今日は";
> japanese.l00002 = "サヨナラ";
> 
> ... but I just can't think of how I switch them up at the point when I
> want to display one or the other, because the switch involves changing
> the name of the variable being called.

var x=(language=="en"?english:japanese);
...
alert(x.l00001);

I.e. you set a reference variable to point to one language or the other.
Then you use that reference variable to get at your strings.

Darren


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