[izpack-devel] Langpacks as properties files

[Markus Schlegel]

Eeh, well, yes. No docu at all.

Notice, that I have tested all freely available tools I18N last summer, and
this was the only tool that was able to do what I wanted (after the author
fixed a bug which trimmed all trailing whitespaces).

I think the tool is a one man show, maybe the author would welcome any
enhancements....

Markus

2007/4/23, Bartz, Klaus <Klaus.Bartz at coi.de>:
>
> Hi Markus,
> thank you for the link. Mainly it is what I need, mainly...
> Maybe I find something for things I do not like. Is it right,
> that it is a zero-docu-software?
>
> Cheers
>
> Klaus
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> izpack-devel-bounces at lists.berlios.de] *On Behalf Of *Markus Schlegel
> *Sent:* Friday, April 20, 2007 3:51 PM
> *To:* izpack-devel at lists.berlios.de
> *Subject:* Re: [izpack-devel] Langpacks as properties files
>
> I think this is ok.
> Consider using a ResourceBundleEditor like
> http://www.resourcebundleeditor.com/ (it's an Eclipse Plugin).
>
> It shows a tree on the left, and for each Language-Variant a editor on the
> right, each one below the other, the default on top.
>
> Markus
>
> 2007/4/20, Bartz, Klaus <Klaus.Bartz at coi.de>:
> >
> > Hi all,
> > in the moment I am working at the langpacks.
> > Some weeks ago we have discussed it a little bit
> > and decided to change to properties files and remove
> > flags.
> > In the moment I have an converter from our HTML format
> > to properties format ready. I use a HTML helper from
> > Elmar which uses the standard stuff.
> > Not all old HTML files are convertable because some
> > contains bad utf-8 sequences. E.g. ukr.xml.
> >
> >
> > The properties file format is ugly to read for chars
> > other than ASCII, e.g.:
> > English:
> > installer.warning=Warning\!
> > Turkish:
> > installer.warning=Uyar\u00C3\u00BD\!
> > Japanese:
> > installer.warning=\u8B66\u544A \!
> >
> > I think this is not editable. Therefore I am writing
> > a little, simple, ugly tool which shows the text as
> > seen in the IzPanels and allow to edit it. I do not
> > implement any way to write the glyphs with an English
> > mapped keybord, else I assume that the user has the
> > needed keybord mapping activated. On MS Windows XP
> > this works better as I have assumed. I have tested it
> > with RU. I cannot read it, but I can write chars which
> > looks like some which are present in the converted file.
> >
> > My votes:
> > 1.
> > I vote to remove the old stuff (files like eng.xml)
> > fully and support only properties files beginning with the
> > next medium relase(3.11).
> > The standard langpacks we (I) can convert. Custom langpacks
> > have to be converted by the install builder with the given
> > converter.
> >
> > 2.
> > I vote to make the bad langpacks public in the user email
> > list and remove them in the next medium release (3.11),
> > if they are not corrected.
> >
> > Any comments?
> >
> > Cheers
> >
> > Klaus
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