Multilingual SVG for the web

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Is there a way to create multilingual SVG files for the web?

I have an SVG with text that I use on a website.

Now if the user changes the language on the website I should normally create a new images for that language. Is there a way to add translation strings to an SVG that change based on some parameter?

Answer

If I were you I would use jQuery to detect what language the browser is and use separate files, such as:

icon_de.svg
icon_en.svg
icon_se_svg

Then with jQuery use navigator.language to detect the language and if you have that SVG set then append to icon_.svg.

Example for navigator.language:

if (window.navigator.language != "en") {       
  doLangSelect(window.navigator.language); 
}

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