[brailleblaster] Re: i18n and l10n
- From: "John J. Boyer" <john.boyer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: brailleblaster@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2012 17:07:03 -0500
Hi Michael,
Don't make any bets on my current opinions based on previous ones. I
think a separate properties file for each language and maybe even for
each country is the way to go.
I thught you would be the one to respond, since you supplied the
original example.
John
On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 09:25:31PM -0000, Michael Whapples wrote:
> 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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John J. Boyer; President, Chief Software Developer
Abilitiessoft, Inc.
http://www.abilitiessoft.com
Madison, Wisconsin USA
Developing software for people with disabilities
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