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Internationalising your skin or plugin

TWiki supports a wide variety of European, Asian and other languages through its InternationalisationEnhancements, introduced in TWikiRelease01Feb2003 and improved with UTF-8 URL support in TWikiRelease02Sep2004.

From TWiki 3 onwards (Sep 2004), there is virtually no work to be done to internationalise your skin. However, it is important to use the %CHARSET% variable in your skin's templates if you currently set the page's character encoding using the <META> tag - see skin and template changes for details.

Plugin work

For plugins, see InternationalisationGuidelines for details on how to add I18N support, e.g. where you have assumptions that a letter is 'A to Z'.

Localising your skin

TWiki user interface I18N now makes it easy to get English text in your skin translated into different languages. See UserInterfaceInternationalisation for more details.

Historical I18N issues

In the 01 Feb 2003 release, you needed to URL-encode TWiki variables that include web/topic names using %INTURLENCODE{...}% - you should install and see Codev.InternationalisationEnhancements#Skin_and_template_changes for the details. This syntax is stable for this release, and in TWikiRelease02Sep2004 has turned into a null operation (i.e. it's harmless to include this but it does nothing). In other words, the TWiki code no longer does this type of URL encoding, allowing the browser to UTF-8-encode URLs without TWiki getting involved.

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