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Kik has mentioned that it has 120M users from 225 countries. That way Kik should support localization for its UI and Kik apps also.

So, the question is how HTML5/JS application can get current user locale to show UI using user locale?

Thanks, Serg.

user3512552
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Kik is a mobile web browser. That means it follows the regular standards set out for browsers in terms of localization.

You have two basic options:

  • browser-side: JavaScript has access to a global variable tag denotes the language preference (navigator.userLanguage || navigator.language).

  • server-side: your server can check a header (Accept-Language) on the I coming request that denotes the locale and serve up different content. This is discouraged because it removes the ability to use a cdn or some high performant environment to serve content.

jairajs89
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