[Rails-devel] Resource bundles

[Erik V. <eri...@hc...>]

I have been thinking on how we can best manage our resource bundles 
(i.e. versions of LocalisedText_aa_BB.properties). 
The contents may still be a bit fluid, although it will 
settle down somewhat now all messages (should) have been included.

I'm in favour of removing all comments and just leaving the
properties, sorted alphabetically. The sorting makes a comparison of 
different versions very easy in a side-by-side scroller like WinMerge.
This means that we have to drop all pretension of having the
bundle internally organised in some way, but that would be
hard to do and maintain anyhow.

In the past I have used this alphabetic sort in a commercial
application with texts in 6 languages, and this way it was very
easy to spot differences (missing or redundant entries).

What do you think?

Erik Vos