Sending emails to customers in their language

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Sending emails to customers in their language

OlyKLin

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February 5, 2018 at 9:30 am

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Hi Everyone
I was wondering if it's possible to send emails to customers in their native language?
Our Server/DB is in us_english but we have customers in Spain, Portugel, UK, India etc and we'd like to send them emails in their language.
Is it possible to do this? I've tried SET LANGUAGE but it doesn't seem to work for text. It works for Dates.
Thanks!
Cathryn

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John Mitchell-245523 SSC Guru Points: 148809 More actions · Answer 1

Cathryn

What doesn't work about SET LANGUAGE, and why do you even need it? Can you not just put the messages in the various languages in a table and select from there for your e-mail?

'Hindi', '??????' 'English', 'Hello' 'Spanish', 'Buenos días' 'Portuguese', 'Bom dia'

John

OlyKLin Ten Centuries Points: 1333 More actions · Answer 2

Hi John

This is what I tried:

DECLARE @TEXT varchar(50)
SELECT @TEXT = 'HELLO'

SET LANGUAGE 'Spanish'
SELECT @TEXT

It just gives me back 'HELLO'.

I thought about storing the messages in a text and just pulling them but I was hoping I might be able to do it on the fly

ZZartin SSC-Dedicated Points: 30894 More actions · Answer 3

That is simply not what set language does, all it's doing is saying you want some specific localization like date names/formats etc... It's not going to take some random text, see that it's in english and then convert to the language you want. Based on your example how would you ever be able to actually get 'HELLO' back after setting the language to spanish 😀

Sue_H SSC Guru Points: 90860 More actions · Answer 4

OlyKLin - Monday, February 5, 2018 11:44 AM
Hi John
This is what I tried:
DECLARE @TEXT varchar(50)
SELECT @TEXT = 'HELLO'
SET LANGUAGE 'Spanish'
SELECT @TEXT
It just gives me back 'HELLO'.
I thought about storing the messages in a text and just pulling them but I was hoping I might be able to do it on the fly

SET LANGUAGE works on system messages and data formats but won't translate other text. With system messages, it gets the alternative language value from sys.messages. Storing that text may be something you want to do, similar to sys.messages, but it depends on how much text it involves.

Sue

subramaniam.chandrasekar SSCarpal Tunnel Points: 4223 More actions · Answer 5

OlyKLin - Monday, February 5, 2018 9:30 AM
Hi Everyone
I was wondering if it's possible to send emails to customers in their native language?
Our Server/DB is in us_english but we have customers in Spain, Portugel, UK, India etc and we'd like to send them emails in their language.
Is it possible to do this? I've tried SET LANGUAGE but it doesn't seem to work for text. It works for Dates.
Thanks!
Cathryn

You do require an user defined function for this ? If I'm not wrong, while working with different time zones, We'll create an user defined functions and

convert the date time to user's timezone date time. We'd need to follow the same here.🙂🙂