Kendo UI Globalization / Language packs

The kendo-global project on github makes it easy to localize all localizable texts on all Kendo UI widgets by only including the desired language file like this:

<script src="http://cdn.kendostatic.com/2012.3.1114/js/kendo.all.min.js"></script>
<script src="/js/lang/kendo.pt-BR.js"></script>

It works by overriding the default options on the prototypes of the widgets, so it will work as if those widgets were created natively in the expected language.

Since it doesn't change anything, and don't override any method, you'll still be able to pass customized options with custom messages by using the standard approach if you need a specific message on a individual widget (instead of "10 itens" you may want to show "10 products" in the pager of the grid...)

The project currently has only a few language packs. Translating is very easy and full credits will be given to every and each translator. So contributors are really, really welcome.

The project's page can be found here: https://github.com/loudenvier/kendo-global

I am working with Telerik Controls Q1 2013 SP1. It looks like you can no longer override the messages for many of the Kendo grid's labels or tooltips. Here is a list of several messages/tooltips that I was not able to override using a kendo-global language file:

• ItemsPerPage
• First
• Previous
• Next
• Last

I have no good answer to the original question. It may be worth mentioning that for my purpose the solution was to use the Fluent API

@(Html.Kendo().Grid<Whatever>()
    .Name("Grid")
    .Pageable(e => e           
        .Messages(p => p.ItemsPerPage("")
            .First("לדף הראשון")
            .Previous("לדף הקודם")
            .Next("לדף הבא")
            .Last("לדף האחרון")
            .Refresh("ריענון")
            .Display("מציג {0}-{1} מתוך {2} רשומות")
            .Page("דף")
            .Of("מתוך {0}")))
 ...