how to display city callout in the visitors language? (2)
Hi!
I can call the user's city, but my lander is not in english. How can I translate it from bangkok for example to กรุงเทพฯ (bangkok in thai).
edit: found this answer by maxmind which didn't answer anything for me http://dev.maxmind.com/faq/how-do-i-...tive-language/
Thanks!
Yes, it's possible with the GeoIP2 databases and this is one of their advantages over GeoIP legacy.
I'm not sure if localised names are in the databases or whether they just supply a 'geonameId' that lets you then look it up from them.
Note this in the PHP documentation:
print($record->country->isoCode . "\n"); // 'US'
print($record->country->name . "\n"); // 'United States'
print($record->country->names['zh-CN'] . "\n"); // '美国'
So, names['language code'] might work to a limited extent. Looking at the web service documentation suggests only a few languages work:
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