[brailleblaster] Re: i18n and l10n
- From: "Michael Whapples" <mwhapples@xxxxxxx>
- To: <brailleblaster@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2012 21:25:31 -0000
Hello,
Firstly I think the recommended way of inserting unicode characters in a Java
string is to use the \uxxxx escape system (eg. String myString = “\u00f6”; ).
May be this link will help explain in more details
http://docs.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/i18n/text/convertintro.html
While we are at that page we may as well pay attention to the rest of the
tutorial as its all about i18n
http://docs.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/i18n/TOC.html
Personally I would vote for the replacement strings to be in separate
properties files, however I think John previously seemed opposed to it.
Michael Whapples
From: Hanxiao Fu
Sent: Tuesday, March 20, 2012 8:28 PM
To: brailleblaster@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [brailleblaster] i18n and l10n
Hey guys,
I am trying to work on the localization package. In particular, I am trying to
implement Chinese locale to the program. For now, I am trying to make the menu
to be displayed in Chinese. I have followed the process introduced in
BUILD.txt, so I can run brailleblaster.jar on my computer now. However, I am
not sure how this process should be proceed since I am not really familiar with
it :
1. I have directly changed the text in BBMenu.java into Chinese, just to see if
it'd work. However, it shows some random characters instead of the Chinese I
replaced. I think the problem might be the charset setting, but I don't know
how to fix it. I have changed the source file encoding to UTF-8, but it didn't
work.
2. John has sent me an example project to show me how localization works. he
uses ResourceBundle and Locale classes to realize the localization. I have
found LocaleHandler.java in localization directory. I suppose this would help
the language translation during running time. Actually, I am not sure how to
realize the localization to the menu. Should we use Locale and create
properties files?
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Hanxiao Fu
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