Unknown String value Translations to Other Languages WPF MVVM

Question

In my app, I will retrieve, lets say 3 items/fields. field1, field2, field3. At this point I dont know what their values are.

Only after the retrieval of these fields at runtime will the values be known.

How should I go about translating these values into a different language. Lets say just portuguese for now.

All the fields are string. These fields will be displayed in TextBlocks in the xaml file.

Question: How do I go about doing this? All samples I found online are all using resx files that have known values.

Links will also help.

Thanks in advance

Answer 1

I decided to take the cheap way out. I created resource dictionaries with lists of possible values for selected languages(Since the values that will be entered are more or less predictable). I then just loop through the dictionaries to find the value of the current language (ie English - Name(value)) then get the Key and use that to loop through the other dictionary for the desired languages value.

Its a big workaround but it gave me less trouble than when I used google translate.

Sorry for the inconvenience.

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Edit:

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When I say loop through, I used foreach loops to loop through one dictionary, get the value and key and use that to loop through the second dictionary. I stated resource dictionaries but what I meant was normal dictionaries in c# coding

Answer 2

There are two ways to achieve what you require.

First one is that you built a custom language converter class library, this is a long winded process and a lot of coding is required.

The Second one is using Google API. Below are links to use Google API for converting:
Google API Example 1

Google API Example 2