MULTILINGUAL USER INTERFACE FOR WEBSITE USING RESOURCE FILES

Neha Chhatwani, Teni Gada, Vani Ganji, Jaitheradevi Pathirapandi, Nishi Tikku

Abstract: Due to the rapid growth of the internet usage, new kinds of problems are emerging endlessly and one among them is language barrier among different Internet user, so it is important to build a system which will overcome this barrier. Some websites do provides language switching options but the solutions are not satisfactory as multiple pages need to be developed for multiple languages which involve lot of resource wastage. This paper discusses multilingual implementation of website using the concept of Resource file in Asp.Net. ASP.NET and the .NET Framework ship with support for multilingual applications, namely in the form of Resource Files. Multilingual User Interface (MUI) enables the localization of user interfaces for globalized applications. MUI also supports the creation of resources for any number of user interface languages. MUI ship single core functionality to all platforms independent of UI language, which significantly reduces development and testing efforts. The most visible benefit of MUI is that multiple users can share the same webpage and view the user interface in different languages. Multilingual accessibility to Website content significantly facilitates multilingual users to meet their needs

Keywords: Language Barriers, Multilingual Website, Resource File

DOI: https://doi.org/10.15623/ijret.2013.0209011