Howto translate the onscreen terms of dataTables ?

The basic strategy articulated by dataTables 1.9 is to set labels using the oLanguage initialization object. The following code can be used as a template:

  $('table.dataTable-paged', context).dataTable({
          "sPaginationType": "full_numbers", 
           "oLanguage": { "sSearch" : "Custom Search Label" }
        });

More documentation about the proper oLanguage strings can be found at:

http://legacy.datatables.net/usage/i18n

Hope that helps.