Globalization is the combination of adapting the component to
various languages by means of parsing and formatting the date or
number Internationalization and also by adding cultural specific customizations and translating the text
localization.
By default, DatePicker date format, week and month names are specific to the American 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 go with the different culture other than English, follow the below steps.
CLDR-Data package by using the below command (it installs the CLDR JSON data). To
know more about CLDR-Data refer the
CLDR-Data link.npm install cldr-data --saveOnce the package installed, you can find the culture
specific JSON data under the location \node_modules\cldr-data.
In ASP.NET Core, the static file contents are should present under wwwroot folder. For this, manually copy the CLDR-Data from the node_modules folder and place inside the wwwroot folder and refer from the \wwwroot\scripts\cldr-data location as like the below code examples
function loadCultureFiles(name) {
var files = ['ca-gregorian.json', 'numbers.json', 'timeZoneNames.json'];
var loader = ej.base.loadCldr;
var loadCulture = function (prop) {
var val, ajax;
ajax = new ej.base.Ajax(location.origin + location.pathname + '/../../scripts/cldr-data/main/' + name + '/' + files[prop], 'GET', false);
ajax.onSuccess = function (value) {
val = value;
};
ajax.send();
loader(JSON.parse(val));
};
for (var prop = 0; prop < files.length; prop++) {
loadCulture(prop);
}
}The
Localizationlibrary 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. |
English, ensure that locale text for the concerned culture is loaded through load method of
L10n class. var L10n = ej.base.L10n;
L10n.load({
'de': {
'datepicker': { placeholder: 'Wählen Sie ein Datum',
today: 'heute'
}
}
});The following example demonstrates the DatePicker in German culture.
<ejs-datepicker id="datepicker"></ejs-datepicker>
<script>
document.addEventListener('DOMContentLoaded', function () {
datepicker = document.getElementById('datepicker').ej2_instances[0];
var L10n = ej.base.L10n;
L10n.load({
'de': {
'datepicker': {
placeholder: 'Wählen Sie ein Datum',
today: 'heute'
}
}
});
loadCultureFiles('de');
datepicker.locale = 'de';
});
function loadCultureFiles(name) {
var files = ['ca-gregorian.json', 'numbers.json', 'timeZoneNames.json'];
if (name === 'ar') {
files.push('numberingSystems.json');
}
var loader = ej.base.loadCldr;
var loadCulture = function (prop) {
var val, ajax;
if (name === 'ar' && prop === files.length - 1) {
ajax = new ej.base.Ajax(location.origin + location.pathname + '/../../scripts/cldr-data/supplemental/' + files[prop], 'GET', false);
} else {
ajax = new ej.base.Ajax(location.origin + location.pathname + '/../../scripts/cldr-data/main/' + name + '/' + files[prop], 'GET', false);
}
ajax.onSuccess = function (value) {
val = value;
};
ajax.send();
loader(JSON.parse(val));
};
for (var prop = 0; prop < files.length; prop++) {
loadCulture(prop);
}
}
</script>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.
<ejs-datepicker id="datepicker" enableRtl=true></ejs-datepicker>
<script>
document.addEventListener('DOMContentLoaded', function () {
datepicker = document.getElementById('datepicker').ej2_instances[0];
var L10n = ej.base.L10n;
L10n.load({
'ar': {
'datepicker': {
placeholder: 'اختر تاريخا',
today: 'اليوم'
}
}
});
loadCultureFiles("ar");
datepicker.locale = 'ar';
});
function loadCultureFiles(name) {
var files = ['ca-gregorian.json', 'numbers.json', 'timeZoneNames.json'];
if (name === 'ar') {
files.push('numberingSystems.json');
}
var loader = ej.base.loadCldr;
var loadCulture = function (prop) {
var val, ajax;
if (name === 'ar' && prop === files.length - 1) {
ajax = new ej.base.Ajax(location.origin + location.pathname + '/../../scripts/cldr-data/supplemental/' + files[prop], 'GET', false);
} else {
ajax = new ej.base.Ajax(location.origin + location.pathname + '/../../scripts/cldr-data/main/' + name + '/' + files[prop], 'GET', false);
}
ajax.onSuccess = function (value) {
val = value;
};
ajax.send();
loader(JSON.parse(val));
};
for (var prop = 0; prop < files.length; prop++) {
loadCulture(prop);
}
}
</script>