Revision as of 14:04, 31 December 2011

This article explains how to set the map interface language and how to display more language information

Setting the map interface language

To set the language, use the following:

ovi.mapsapi.packages.load("language", "de-DE");

For the language, define it in format of ISO3166-1 alpha-2 country code, e.g. "en-US", "de-DE" and so on.

Getting more language information

When you want to display more information, use the class ovi.mapsapi.language.Info.

It has a method called "getDefinition (code, [definitions]) : Object".

This will retrieve the language meta data for a given LCID. The lookup will be done in two steps: First the full LCID (ISO-639-1 AND ISO-3166-1 alpha-2) will be matched. If the full LCID cannot be found the more general form (ISO-639-1 only) will be matched.

An example of using the getDefinition:

>>> mylanguage = ovi.mapsapi.language.Info;

Would return:

Object { definitions={...}, translations={...}, more...}

then...

>>> mylanguage.getDefinition("de-DE");

would return e.g:

Object { key="de", iso639_1="de", more...}

Summary

Please check out the chapter http://api.maps.nokia.com/2.1.0/apireference/symbols/nokia.maps.language.html for more information on languages.