Re: [Java-gnome-developer] Translation

[Reinout v. S. <re...@gm...>]

Hi Andrew,

On 4/20/05, Andrew Cowie <an...@op...> wrote:

> *Personally*, I find the GNU/GNOME translation infrastructure somewhat
> cumbersome, but there is no denying there is middling string momentum
> there.

Not just that. Most free software translators are used to the .po
format and have specialized editors for it.

> In C, they use _( "String in English" ) which the calls gettext and what
> not to figure out what an appropriate localized translation would be.
> I'm suspecting that specific construct won't work in Java [_ isn't a
> valud function identifier, is it?; in any case, there are some Java
> specific translation methodologies out there that seem to work pretty
> well.

It looks like GNU gettext supports Java too, in a way that's valid for
both ResourceBundle and gettext approaches:

http://www.delorie.com/gnu/docs/gettext/gettext_225.html

regards,

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Reinout