1. A method comprising: receiving, from a backend application of an application including a frontend application and the backend application, a plurality of language identifiers, each of the plurality of language identifiers corresponding to a default language descriptor string; mapping at least one of the received plurality of language identifiers to a non-default language descriptor string based upon languages supported by a frontend application, the non-default language descriptor string being different than the default language descriptor string; mapping at least one of the received plurality of language identifiers to its corresponding default language descriptor string based upon the languages supported by a frontend application; presenting to a user the plurality of language descriptor strings; receiving from the user a selection of one of the plurality of language descriptors; sending to the backend application a message indicating the language selected by the user.