Recognise language automatically?

[tristansummers]

This week's challenge.

import from .csv and recognise language and process accordingly.

I figure if you can auto translate expressions for language with universaliser, then you can recognise languages????

Any tipw where to statrt the investigation?

[Mathias Moehl]

You can look at the name of any property (in this example the opacity property of the layer) and then check in which language it is written. Requires only that you know the name of this property in all UI languages you want to support:

var myName = thisLayer("ADBE Transform Group")("ADBE Opacity").name;
var language = undefined
if(myName == "Opacity") language = "EN"
else if(myName == "Deckkraft") language = "DE"

[tristansummers]

Thanks sir

I love this Columbo stuff.

seems like a good place to start, unless I can get them to use Dataclay...

I am not sure yet if this is localised versions of After Effects, or just localised content.

In which case I will need to get them to add a locale code to the spreadsheet.

And then see if AE can natively access that.

So if the variable = "fr" use come "xxx_fr" etc.