I18N

The plugin supports i18n for the month and weekday names and the “weekStart“ option. The default is English (“en”); other available translations are available in the “js/locales/“ directory, simply include your desired locale after the plugin. To add more languages, simply add a key to “$.fn.datepicker.dates“, before calling “.datepicker()“. Example

$.fn.datepicker.dates = {

days: ["Sunday", "Monday", "Tuesday", "Wednesday", "Thursday", "Friday", "Saturday"],
daysShort: ["Sun", "Mon", "Tue", "Wed", "Thu", "Fri", "Sat"],
daysMin: ["Su", "Mo", "Tu", "We", "Th", "Fr", "Sa"],
months: ["January", "February", "March", "April", "May", "June", "July", "August", "September", "October", "November", "December"],
monthsShort: ["Jan", "Feb", "Mar", "Apr", "May", "Jun", "Jul", "Aug", "Sep", "Oct", "Nov", "Dec"],
today: "Today",
clear: "Clear",
format: "mm/dd/yyyy",
titleFormat: "MM yyyy", /* Leverages same syntax as 'format' */
weekStart: 0

};

Right-to-left languages may also include “rtl: true“ to make the calendar display appropriately.

If your browser (or those of your users) is displaying characters wrong, chances are the browser is loading the javascript file with a non-unicode encoding. Simply add “charset=“UTF-8”“ to your “script“ tag:

.. code-block

html

<script src="bootstrap-datepicker.XX.js" charset="UTF-8"></script>

$('.datepicker').datepicker({

language: 'XX'

});

.. figure

_static/screenshots/option_language.png

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