Re: [Rails-devel] Constants

[brett l. <wak...@gm...>]

On 7/11/06, Erik Vos <eri...@hc...> wrote:
> > Java has it's own localisation methods and classes under
> > java.util.Locale and java.util.ResourceBundle.
> >
> > The current plan for localization in Rails is fairly loose. Erik has
> > started a basic amount of using the Locale class and
> > LocalisedText.properties.
>
> Localisation is (or should be) already handled in Game.getText().
> Currently there is only a default (English) text file,
> but IIRC adding French texts in a file LocalisedText_fr.properties
> should handle that language (after calling Game.setLocale("fr")).
>

We should make this a configurable option on startup.  We should also
look at saving a file of "default" settings so that when the user sets
a preference, we save it and re-use it the next time we start up.

---Brett.