Internationalization support in yFiles WPF (version 2.5)

There are basically two parts to i18n support and l10n in an application that uses one of the diagramming libraries of the yFiles product family:

• the graph representation itself: this includes the visual representation of node labels and edge labels, but also their representation when saving a graph to a graph exchange file format like GraphML
• the user interface (UI) of an application: this includes text of UI elements like buttons, etc.

Graph representation

I18n support for displaying the label depends on the actual label style used, as well as on the availability of suitable fonts that contain the correct glyphs for a specific language. The default implementations for the ILabelStyle interface support arbitrary fonts as well as all text orientations that exist for the .NET framework. Saving and loading localized diagrams with GraphML is also fully supported. For interactive label editing, a standard WPF TextBox implementation is used by default, which can be customized with standard .NET framework methods.

User interface

yFiles WPF uses commands for a lot of actions within the library, which can be bound to toolbar buttons, or menu items. The text shown for those commands as well as the default input bindings for invoking them via the keyboard can be changed by including custom resources named either yWorks.Canvas.CanvasResources or yWorks.yFiles.GraphResources to override the defaults.

The default strings and shortcuts are as follows:

yWorks.Canvas.CanvasResources:

yWorks.yFiles.GraphResources: