[brailleblaster] Re: Implementing Internationalization
- From: Michael Whapples <mwhapples@xxxxxxx>
- To: brailleblaster@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 2 Dec 2010 22:34:22 +0000
Hello,
Well I don't know about French or Spanish, but I could certainly do a English
United Kingdom one. There's some spellings, date representations are different,
etc. On the topic of date formatting, the JDK comes with stuff to handle that
and put it in the users locale, we would just need to ensure we use the
localised version of the date format. I don't know so much on some of the other
stuff like number separators,etc again the JDK may come with stuff for
localising that. Messages are probably the main bit where we need translators.
Michael Whapples
On 2 Dec 2010, at 22:18, qubit wrote:
> How about either French or Spanish?
> Are there fluent speakers on this list?
> Even if not, can babelfish do the job?
> It has been a long time since I took french or spanish, or I would volunteer
> to do the tables.
>
> When you localize dates, would that imply any more than just translating the
> months of the year and days of the week? For example, in the US, people are
> in the habit of writing dates as mm/dd/yyyy whereas most of the world I
> understand put the day of month first.
> (In fact, in genealogical research, records always put the day first.)
>
> Also, in math, I have heard that some countries use the comma as a decimal
> point. (I don't remember what they do with the period.) Would this go into
> internationalization as well? or is my memory deceiving me?
>
> Just musing.
> --le
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "John J. Boyer" <john.boyer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <brailleblaster@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Thursday, December 02, 2010 3:09 PM
> Subject: [brailleblaster] Implementing Internationalization
>
>
> 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
>
> --
> 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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