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Localization | PDF.js language

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Hi!

Using PDF file viewer link and assets as per documentation <a href="assets/js/pdf.js/web/viewer.html?file=../../../files/invoice.pdf">Arve</a> and everything works.

Wanted to change pdf.js viewer toolbar language. <a href="assets/js/pdf.js/web/viewer.html#locale=et?file=../../../files/invoice.pdf">Arve</a>

Did not work. Wasn’t able to find any documentation regarding localization. Found other people having the same issue:

https://github.com/mozilla/pdf.js/issues/3761 (Issue closed, but doesn’t seem to work). Example: http://mozilla.github.io/pdf.js/web/viewer.html#locale=he
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/29407188/how-to-localize-pdf-js-toolbar

Please:

Include localization in the documentation and provide a working example
Consider assigning toolbar language using html lang attribute from html document. <html lang="et"> for example. Or provide a solution to do it. It would be very easy to use on multilingual pages. Its not only English out there.

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Created 7 years ago
Comments:11 (3 by maintainers)

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kristjan-kurecommented, Jun 24, 2016

Thank you @yurydelendik. This fixed it. Wasn’t able to understand @Snuffleupagus example. Wasn’t sure I should change lines in core js file (e.g PDFJS.locale = (PDFJS.locale === undefined ? navigator.language : PDFJS.locale);

How about using <html lang=""> attribute (website language) to define interface language - if webpage uses another language - change the language in the interface. If html lang is not set use navigator navigator.userLanguage? I mean if we are going to have 5 different languages we need to overwrite the PDFJS.locale every time?

What do you think?

PS! Please do update documentation regarding localization and provide a working example.

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rjakshayjain13commented, Jul 1, 2020

@yurydelendik @Snuffleupagus What is the suggested way to change locale now? I am only using viewer.html to render the pdf.

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