Google Inc.

Jungshik Shin

Kirill Buryak

Cibu Chalissery Johny

Jeffrey David Oldham

Robert S Jung

Nebojsa Ciric

Vladimir Weinstein

Erik Menno Van Der Poel

Neha Chachra

Sudhakar Chandrasekharan

Mark Edward Davis

Shanjian Li

Chinglan Ho

Markus Scherer

Described is a technique for establishing an interaction language for a user interface without having to communicate with the user in a default language, which the user may or may not understand. The technique may prompt the user for multiples responses in order to determine a specific language. The responses may include speech input or selecting particular regions on a map. In some implementations, the language may be precise to a particular dialect or variant preferred or spoken by the user. Accordingly, this approach provides an accurate and efficient method of providing a high degree of specificity for language selection without overwhelming the user with an unmanageable list of languages.

Language preference selection for a user interface using non-language elements

A data localization service is provided for a web browser residing on a computing device. Depending upon the availability of the network connection as well as the level of native support in the browser, the data localization service will support different levels of service/performance to optimize the user experience. To do so, the data localization service includes a priority handler configured to receive a request to localize data from a requesting client application and provide in response thereto a localized representation of the data to the requesting client application. The data localization service may also include a native data localizer configured to receive a request to localize data from the priority handler and localize the data in accordance with a localization preference parameter indicative of a locale. The native data localizer may be a function integrated into the script interpreter of the web browser.

Data localization service made available by a web browser

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Jungshik Shin