A digital calendar for all languages? No problem anymore with the new Türchen.com “International” feature!

The Advent calendar tradition is very well known in German-speaking countries, with every child looking forward to opening the first little doors in November. Little by little, this idea is spreading to many other countries, and there, many institutions and companies naturally want to put a smile on the faces of the international target group. Our experience also speaks for this: almost in every country of the world a Türchen.com calendar has already been created! That's why we have taken up this challenge with the new version of Türchen and developed the "International" feature for it. What that is exactly, and how to use it, we'll show you in this article.

How the new feature works

Of course, we want to make life and Türchen as easy as possible for the users of your calendar. That's why we deliberately did without a language changer. At least at first glance. Because the right language will be selected all by itself! Your visitor won't even notice the new feature. This is because everyone has set a language in their browser in which they would prefer to have a web page displayed. If this is for example English (and the calendar has an English version stored), then the calendar is simply displayed in English. As if by magic. And if this should not fit, then there is simply a language changer at the end of the calendar. There, all languages that you created can be selected.

In the "Enterprise"-Package, the feature is already included. For Business and Premium, it can simply be added via the extensions.

Step by step to an international digital calendar

First you have to define in which languages the calendar should be available. To do this, use the "Calendar languages" button in the top right corner of the menu.

You can edit this list at any time and add more options. As language abbreviation you should use the 2-digit language abbreviation according to ISO 639-1. You can find all abbreviations here.

Once the languages are created, you have to save the calendar once. Now the languages are available in a dropdown list and you can switch between them and edit the calendar in all languages. By the way: You can edit all fields that have the icon on the side. And if you hover your mouse over the icon, you can also see which language you are in:

Attention: We have provided far more than 1000 fonts to choose from in Türchen.com. Some character sets like Russian, Thai or Chinese are not available for every font. Therefore, it is best to test which font works well with all the languages used before you publish the calendar.

Language abbreviations according to ISO 639-1

These abbreviations are required to match the provided languages ​​with the language set in the browser. For example, for German the abbreviation is de, for English en and Spanish would be es The table is sorted alphabetically. You can find more information at Wikipedia.

Abbreviation Language
aa Afar
ab Abkhazian
af Afrikaans
am Amharic
ar Arabic
as Assamese
ay Aymara
az Azerbaijani
ba Bashkir
be Belorussian
bg Bulgarian
bh Biharic
bi Islamic
bn Bengali
bo Tibetan
br Breton
ca Catalan
co Corsican
cs Czech
cy Welsh
da Danish
de German
dz Dzongkha, Bhutani
el Greek
en English
eo Esperanto
es Spanish
et Estonian
eu Basque
fa Persian
fi Finnish
fj Na Vosa Vakaviti
fo Faroese
fr French
fy Frisian
ga Irish
gd Scottish Gaelic
gl Galician
gn Guarani
gu Gujara
ha Haussa
he Hebrew
hi Hindi
hr Croatian
hu Hungarian
hy Armenian
ia Interlingual
id Indonesian
ie Interlingual
ik Inupiak
is Icelandic
it Italian
iu Inuktitut (Eskimo)
iw Hebrew (deprecated, now: he)
yes Japanese
ji Jiddish (deprecated, now: yi)
jv Javanese
ka Georgian
kk Kazakh
kl Kalaallisut (Greenlandic)
km Cambodian
kn Canada
ko Korean
ks Kashmir
ku Kurdish
ky Kyrgyz
la Latin
ln Lingala
lo Lao
lt Lithuanian
lv Latvian
mg Malagasy
mi Maori
mk Macedonian
ml Malayalam
mn Mongolian
mo Moldavian
mr Marathi
ms Malaysian
mt Maltese
my Burmese
na Nauruan
ne Nepalese
nl Dutch
no Norwegian
oc Occitan
om Oromo
or Oriya
pa Punjabi
pl Polish
ps Pashto
pt Portuguese
qu Quechua
rm Romansh
rn Kirundian
ro Romanian
ru Russian
rw Kijarwanda
sa Sanskrit
sd Zinti
sg Sango
sh Serbo-Croatian (deprecated)
si Sinhala
sk Slovak
sl Slovenian
sm Samoan
sn Sanian
so Somali
sq Albanian
sr Serbian
ss Swazidi
st Sesothic
su Sudanese
sv Swedish
sw Swahili
ta Tamil
te Tegulu
tg Tajik
th Thai
ti Tigrinya
tk Turkmen
tl Tagalog
tn Sezuan
to Tongan
tr Turkish
ts Tsongaic
tt Tatar
tw Twi
ug Uyghur
uk Ukrainian
ur Urdu
uz Uzbek
vi Vietnamese
vo Volapuk
wo Wolof
xh Xhosa
yi Jiddish
yo Joruba
za Zhuang
zh Chinese
to Zulu

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