[brailleblaster] Re: Implementing Internationalization
- From: "John J. Boyer" <johnjboyer@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: brailleblaster@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 2 Dec 2010 19:57:48 -0600
Alex,
I think your offer to do Spanish is great. So unless there is a strong
desire somewhere for a different language that will be our second
language. I used to speak Spanish fluently, and I know there are some
fluent speakers who have been lurking. English will of course be our
first language. I'll do that one, so I can get familiar with the
localization process and write some code to simplify using it.
Dates, numbers and currencies are all handled in the jdk. I think that
using subclasses of ResourceBundle would be the best way to do
localization. They will get compresed into the jar file, and we won't
have properties files hanging around. The process is pretty simple.
There has been an inquiry about ussing .po and .pot files for
translations. Does anyone know anything about using them in Java?
We might allow users to do localization using properties files. That
would be another use of the text editor.
John
On Thu, Dec 02, 2010 at 05:41:26PM -0800, Alex Jurgensen wrote:
> Hi John,
>
> I can do Spanish.
>
> Just my suggestion.
>
> However, I suggest that we pick the language that either most of the
> developers here use natively (Besides English) or the lnaguage that most
> people here suggest.
>
> Regards,
> Alex,
>
>
> On 2010-12-02, at 1:09 PM, John J. Boyer wrote:
>
> > From the tutorial the process looks rather involved. I want to set up a
> > package containing all the localization stuff. We will have to localize
> > all menu labels, dialog boxes, etc. and we will also have to display
> > numbers and dates in the correct format. I think it would be good if we
> > practiced localizing to English and one other language for now. Instead
> > of just assigning a string to a label we will be calling a method with a
> > key that will return a String in the proper language.
> >
> > What language would people on the list like us to practice with? please
> > give your feedback.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > John
> >
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> >
> >
>
> Alex Jurgensen,
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>
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