Localization

Localization allows you to present the interface of the Gantt chart in the language you'd like: English, Spanish, French, etc. By default, dhtmlxGantt uses English locale.

Activating a locale

To implement the Gantt chart in non-English language, you need to activate the necessary locale via the setLocale method of the gantt.i18n object.

gantt.i18n.setLocale("fr");

You can use and update any of the predefined locales that are bundled with the dhtmlxgantt.js file or define a custom locale.

    gantt.i18n.setLocale("fr");
    gantt.init("gantt_here");

Related sample:  Localization

Predefined locales

Language	Language code	Translation status
Arabic	ar	partial
Belarusian	be	full
English	en	full
Catalan	ca	partial
Chinese	cn	partial
Croatian	hr	full
Czech	cs	partial
Danish	da	partial
Dutch	nl	partial
Finnish	fi	partial
French	fr	full
German	de	full
Greek	el	partial
Hebrew	he	partial
Hungarian	hu	partial
Indonesian	id	partial
Italian	it	partial
Japanese	jp	partial
Korean	kr	partial
Norwegian	no	partial
Norwegian Bokmål	nb	partial
Persian	fa	full
Polish	pl	partial
Portuguese	pt	partial
Romanian	ro	partial
Russian	ru	full
Slovak	sk	partial
Slovenian	si	partial
Spanish	es	partial
Swedish	sv	partial
Turkish	tr	partial
Ukrainian	ua	partial

Creating a custom locale

The easiest way to create a custom locale is to make a copy of the default (English) locale from the sample below, and translate all strings from it into the required language.

The custom locale can be applied to the Gantt chart in two ways:

• either override the current locale via passing an object of the locale as a parameter to the setLocale method:

gantt.i18n.setLocale(localeObject);

Note, if you provide a partial locale object, gantt will add your labels into the current locale:

gantt.i18n.setLocale({
    labels: {
        new_task: "New task"
    }
});

• or, if you need to switch between several locales, define the locale with a custom language code and switch the gantt to it later:

gantt.i18n.addLocale("lang", localeObject); 
gantt.i18n.setLocale("lang");

Note,

• You can send your custom locale file to support@dhtmlx.com - so we will include it in the next release.
• The currently active locale is also available in the gantt.locale object
• monthFull - the full names of months starting from January;
• monthShort - the short names of months starting from January;
• dayFull - the full names of week days starting from Sunday;
• dayShort - the short names of week days starting from Sunday.

English locale definition

gantt.i18n.setLocale({
    date: {
        month_full: ["January", "February", "March", "April", "May", "June", 
            "July", "August", "September", "October", "November", "December"],
        month_short: ["Jan", "Feb", "Mar", "Apr", "May", "Jun", "Jul", 
            "Aug", "Sep", "Oct", "Nov", "Dec"],
        day_full: ["Sunday", "Monday", "Tuesday", "Wednesday", "Thursday",
             "Friday", "Saturday"],
        day_short: ["Sun", "Mon", "Tue", "Wed", "Thu", "Fri", "Sat"]
    },
    labels: {
        new_task: "New task",
        icon_save: "Save",
        icon_cancel: "Cancel",
        icon_details: "Details",
        icon_edit: "Edit",
        icon_delete: "Delete",
        gantt_save_btn: "New Label",
        gantt_cancel_btn: "New Label",
        gantt_delete_btn: "New Label",
        confirm_closing: "",// Your changes will be lost, are you sure?
        confirm_deleting: "Task will be deleted permanently, are you sure?",
        section_description: "Description",
        section_time: "Time period",
        section_type: "Type",
 
        /* grid columns */
        column_wbs: "WBS",
        column_text: "Task name",
        column_start_date: "Start time",
        column_duration: "Duration",
        column_add: "",
 
        /* link confirmation */
        link: "Link",
        confirm_link_deleting: "will be deleted",
        link_start: " (start)",
        link_end: " (end)",
 
        type_task: "Task",
        type_project: "Project",
        type_milestone: "Milestone",
 
        minutes: "Minutes",
        hours: "Hours",
        days: "Days",
        weeks: "Week",
        months: "Months",
        years: "Years",
 
        /* message popup */
        message_ok: "OK",
        message_cancel: "Cancel",
 
        /* constraints */
        section_constraint: "Constraint",
        constraint_type: "Constraint type",
        constraint_date: "Constraint date",
        asap: "As Soon As Possible",
        alap: "As Late As Possible",
        snet: "Start No Earlier Than",
        snlt: "Start No Later Than",
        fnet: "Finish No Earlier Than",
        fnlt: "Finish No Later Than",
        mso: "Must Start On",
        mfo: "Must Finish On",
 
        /* resource control */
        resources_filter_placeholder: "type to filter",
        resources_filter_label: "hide empty"
    }
});

• If the confirm_closing or confirm_deleting label is not defined - the related confirm dialog will not be shown at all (auto-confirm);
• The section_{name} label refers to the lightbox section of the related name.
• The new_task label defines the default text of a new event.

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