Globalization in Angular Datepicker component

27 Apr 20247 minutes to read

Globalization is the combination of internalization and localization. You can adapt the component to various languages by parsing and formatting the date or number Internationalization and also add culture specific customization and translation to the text localization.

By default, DatePicker date format, week and month names are specific to English culture. It utilizes the Essential JavaScript 2 Internationalization package to parse and format the date object based on the culture by using the official UNICODE CLDR
JSON data. It provides the loadCldr method to load culture specific CLDR JSON data. To use a different culture other than English, follow the steps below:

• Install the CLDR-Data package by using the following command (installs all the CLDR JSON data). To know more about CLDR-Data refer to the CLDR-Datalink.

npm install cldr-data --save

Once the package installed, you can find the culture specific JSON data under the location /node_modules/cldr-data.

• Now import the installed CLDR JSON data into the app.component.ts file.

• Now use the loadCldr method to load the culture specific CLDR JSON data from the installed location to app.component.ts file.

• DatePicker displayed Sunday as the first day of week based on default culture (“en-US”). If you want to display the DatePicker with loaded culture’s first day of week, you need to import weekdata.json file from the cldr-data/suppemental as given in the code example.

import { loadCldr } from "@syncfusion/ej2-base";

declare var require: any;

loadCldr(
  require("cldr-data/main/de/numbers.json"),
  require("cldr-data/main/de/ca-gregorian.json"),
  require("cldr-data/supplemental/numberingSystems.json"),
  require("cldr-data/main/de/timeZoneNames.json"),
  require('cldr-data/supplemental/weekdata.json') // To load the culture based first day of week
);

The Localization library allows you to localize default text content of the DatePicker. The DatePicker component has static text for today feature that can be changed to other cultures (Arabic, Deutsch, French, etc.) by defining the locale value and translation object.

Locale keywords	Text
today	Name of the button to choose Today date.
placeholder	Hint to describe expected value in input element.

• Before changing to a culture other than English, ensure that locale text for the concerned culture is loaded through load method of L10n class.

//Load the L10n, loadCldr from ej2-base
import { loadCldr, L10n } from "@syncfusion/ej2-base";

//load the locale object to set the localized placeholder value
L10n.load({
  de: {
  datepicker: {
    placeholder: "Wählen Sie ein Datum",
    today:"heute"
    }
  }
});

• Set the culture by using the locale property.
  In the following code example, the DatePicker is initialized in German culture with corresponding localized text.

The following example demonstrates the DatePicker in German culture.

app.component.ts

import { NgModule } from '@angular/core'
import { BrowserModule } from '@angular/platform-browser'
import { DatePickerModule } from '@syncfusion/ej2-angular-calendars'



import { Component } from "@angular/core";
import { DatePickerComponent } from "@syncfusion/ej2-angular-calendars";
import { loadCldr, L10n } from '@syncfusion/ej2-base';
// Here we have referred local json files for preview purpose
import * as numberingSystems from './numberingSystems.json';
import * as gregorian from './ca-gregorian.json';
import * as numbers from './numbers.json';
import * as detimeZoneNames from './timeZoneNames.json';

loadCldr(numberingSystems, gregorian, numbers, detimeZoneNames);


@Component({
imports: [
        
        DatePickerModule
    ],


standalone: true,
  selector: 'app-root',
  template: `<ejs-datepicker locale='de'></ejs-datepicker>`
})
export class AppComponent {
  ngOnInit(): void {
    /*loads the localization text*/
    L10n.load({
      'de': {
        'datepicker': {
          placeholder: 'Wählen Sie ein Datum aus',
          today:'heute'
        }
      }
    });
  }
  constructor() {}
}

main.ts

import { bootstrapApplication } from '@angular/platform-browser';
import { AppComponent } from './app.component';
import 'zone.js';
bootstrapApplication(AppComponent).catch((err) => console.error(err));

Right-To-Left

The DatePicker supports RTL (right-to-left) functionality for languages like Arabic and Hebrew to displays the text in the right-to-left direction. Use enableRtl property to set the RTL direction.
The following code example initialize the DatePicker component in Arabic culture and also explains how to set the localized text to the placeholder using load method of L10n class.

app.component.ts

import { NgModule } from '@angular/core'
import { BrowserModule } from '@angular/platform-browser'
import { DatePickerModule } from '@syncfusion/ej2-angular-calendars'




import { Component } from '@angular/core';
import { DatePickerComponent } from "@syncfusion/ej2-angular-calendars";
import { loadCldr, L10n } from '@syncfusion/ej2-base';
// Here we have referred local json files for preview purpose
import * as numberingSystems from './numberingSystems.json';
import * as gregorian from './ca-gregorian.json';
import * as numbers from './numbers.json';
import * as artimeZoneNames from './timeZoneNames.json';

loadCldr(numberingSystems, gregorian, numbers, artimeZoneNames);


@Component({
imports: [
        
        DatePickerModule
    ],


standalone: true,
    selector: 'app-root',
    template: `<ejs-datepicker enableRtl='true' locale='ar'></ejs-datepicker>`
})

export class AppComponent {
    ngOnInit(): void {
       L10n.load({
        'ar': {
          'datepicker': {
              placeholder: "اختر تاريخا",
              today: "اليوم"
          }
        }
      });
    }
    constructor() {}
}

main.ts

import { bootstrapApplication } from '@angular/platform-browser';
import { AppComponent } from './app.component';
import 'zone.js';
bootstrapApplication(AppComponent).catch((err) => console.error(err));