How to set default language in WebOs

Question

How can I set the dault language of an WebOs project? The standard way of adding internationalization in WebOS is to use the $L() function, where I can set a key to the translated string. But if the current language ist not specified in the project WebOS displays the key to the user. How can I stopp this behaviour and set a default language, that will be taken instead of the key.

PS: I think the Palm way of taking a real world sentences is not a good way of programming.

Bad example: $L("This should be not a real world sentence!!")
Better example: $L("key.subKey")

Answer 1

You can use a key-value pair to solve this problem (from the Palm documentation):

If the original string is not appropriate as a key, the $L() function can be called with an explicit key:

$L("value":"Done", "key": "done_key");

At run-time, the result of the call to $L() is the translation of the string passed as value. The translations "live" in the /resources/locale/strings.json file.

Example: content of file app_name/resources/es_us/strings.json:

{

"My text here": "Mi texto aquí",
"done_key": "Listo",
"Some other string": "Some other string's translation"

}