Internationalization.

When building international B2B or B2C portal applications it can be very important to provide multi-lingual user interfaces. Especially when providing self-service portals, personalization is key to increase successful adoption. To enhance usability, Mendix is equipped with a powerful internationalization capability.

Advantages

• The modeling environment facilitates the translation of your application in several ways
• Each end user can view the application in their language of choice
• See the results of the translation at design time so that there are no surprises at run time
• Supports all ISO 639 languages, including right to left languages such as Arabic
• Outsource the translation of your application

Technical features

• All interface texts like captions and validation messages can be translated.
• Switch languages in the Modeler and see forms and other interface elements in different languages at design-time
• See what texts have not been translated yet and what the text in the original language was
• Translate system texts like validation and progress messages
• Quickly translate texts throughout the application in one overview
• Ensure consistency within one language by analyzing all texts in one overview
• Find spelling errors quickly and improve the consistency of the texts in your application
• Supports multiple time, currency, number notations
• Supports multiple calendars
• Can cope with different time zones