Facebook l10n & i18n Issues
International Un-friendly FBML
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Not Internationalized yet |
Use Instead |
Comment |
| <fb:name uid=”%s” possessive=”true”/> | <fb:name uid=”%s” possessive=”false”/> | Vincent’s (possessive) can not be used for some international languages. |
| <fb:name uid=”%s” useyou=”true”/> | <fb:name uid=”%s” useyou=”false”/> | You or you can not be used for non-English languages. |
| <fb:pronoun… | No workaround | |
| <fb:time t=”‘ . $post[’time’] . ‘”/> |
Use Date or Pear I18n library | |
| <fb:friend-selector idname=”to”/>’ | No workaround | ‘Start typing a friend’s name’ is always displayed in English. |
Bugs
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Synopsis |
Workaround |
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| - a submit button in my server: < input type=”submit” value=”e” />e : small e, acute accent - HEX: 0xC3A9 in UTF-8, so 0xC3 -> (A) and 0xA9 -> (c). - in my facebook application: |
Use Images instead | Already reported to Facebook |
PEAR:
1. Add locale file toI18nv2/Locale
2. Add locale pear/18Nv2.php for Locale mapping
$locales = array(
‘af’ => ‘af_ZA’,
‘de’ => ‘de_DE’,
‘en’ => ‘en_US’,
‘fr’ => ‘fr_FR’,
‘it’ => ‘it_IT’,
‘es’ => ‘es_ES’,
‘pt’ => ‘pt_PT’,
’sv’ => ’sv_SE’,
‘nb’ => ‘nb_NO’,
‘nn’ => ‘nn_NO’,
‘no’ => ‘no_NO’,
‘fi’ => ‘fi_FI’,
‘is’ => ‘is_IS’,
‘da’ => ‘da_DK’,
‘nl’ => ‘nl_NL’,
‘pl’ => ‘pl_PL’,
’sl’ => ’sl_SI’,
‘hu’ => ‘hu_HU’,
‘ru’ => ‘ru_RU’,
‘cs’ => ‘cs_CZ’,
Other Issues:
Submit button issue:
http://www.facebook.com/to
Internationalization in general:
http://www.facebook.com/to
mini feed issue:
http://www.facebook.com/to