[brailleblaster] Re: Implementing Internationalization
- From: "John J. Boyer" <johnjboyer@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: brailleblaster@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 3 Dec 2010 05:21:12 -0600
Michael,
You have about convinced me. I'll take a look at
PropertiesResourceBundle. I don't think we will have any localized
objects except strings, though there is a slight possibility that we may
have images sometime in the future. We can use ListResourceBundle if
necessary. But I'll probably go with properties.
John
On Fri, Dec 03, 2010 at 10:20:28AM +0000, Michael Whapples wrote:
> John,
> What is the problem with properties files? I would have said properties
> files would be a better option for dealing with strings as translators
> should not need to be Java programmers to translate and it wouldn't
> require a recompile just to add another locale support.
>
> You mentioned having properties files hanging about, what do you mean?
> It is perfectly possible for properties files to be included in a jar
> file and to be loaded from there. However as we aren't going to ship a
> single jar file but rather a directory structure, there may be an
> advantage to having the properties files outside the jar file so that
> end users could even add there own translations without having to
> regenerate the jar file and they could easily share their translation
> with other users.
>
> That Sun tutorial does recognise there are limitations to properties
> files, if non-string localised objects are needed then a properties file
> isn't enough. Do we have such a case?
>
> Michael Whapples
> On 03/12/10 03:07, John J. Boyer wrote:
> >One of the first steps in internationalizing will be to make a list of
> >keys. I don't know if the specification has enough information for that,
> >so a partial list may have to do to start.
> >
> >John
> >
> >On Thu, Dec 02, 2010 at 07:57:48PM -0600, John J. Boyer wrote:
> >>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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> >>>>Abilitiessoft, Inc.
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> >>>>
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> >>>
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> >>>
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> >>
>
>
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