Re: [j-devel] Suggestions for marking code needing I8N (was Re: Replace FastStringBuffer with +)

[Erik H. <eh...@gm...>]

On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 9:59 AM, Mark Evenson <ev...@pa...> wrote:
> Philip Hudson wrote:
> […]
>>
>> In some cases we are building error messages in English. Do we have a
>> strategy in place yet for globalization of error messages? If not, we
>> could annotate code requiring internationalization with some kind of
>> standard comment.
> […]
>
> No infrastructure for internationalization of error messages exists that
> I have noticed.
>
> For standard comments marking sections needing internatinalization, I
> suggest—purely off the top of my head—the string "XXX I8N" would be
> sufficient.  The 'XXX' part is picked up by Eclipse/Netbeans in their
> respective task views, while 'I8N' is the standard abbreviation of
> 'internationalization'.

As a short lunch intermezzo: it's i18n (18 being the number of
characters between i and n); the other variant being l10n
(localization).


Bye,

Erik.