I think I may have misunderstood your original email.

I thought that you wanted multiple levels of fall back:
nl-BE falls back to nl, falls back to en. Which is slightly more 
complicated than one level of fallback nl falls back to the default, 
English.

But either way, I trust your judgment here.

Gertjan van Oosten wrote:
> Hi Cameron,
>
> As quoted from Cameron Shorter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>   
>> Gertjan, I didn't realise that we would want to support multiple 
>> language files in one application.
>>     
>
> But we always have.  Look at the I18N demo, a user can dynamically
> switch between the supported languages.
>
>   
>> I would have thought that if I was developing an application for a 
>> specific language, then I would also be required to go through and 
>> update all messages for that language.
>>     
>
> I don't understand; during the meeting on July 24th we wrote this about it:
>
>   11:11 <CameronShorter>
>   I assume that you would also want other languages (Eg French) to fall
>   back to the default (English)
>
>   11:12 <gjvoosten>
>   That is another option. Then newly added messages to the default
>   language would still be available in other languages without having to
>   add them explicitly; except they would be in English obviously.
>
>   11:12 <CameronShorter>
>   right.
>
>   11:13 <gjvoosten>
>   What I did before was simply copy all new messages to the other
>   languages and add an XML comment <!-- TODO: translate --> to them.
>   The TODO's show up in my task list in Eclipse, so an easy reminder there.
>
>   11:14 <CameronShorter>
>   The person writing the widget, and the person doing the translation
>   will usually be different. So there will always be widgets without
>   translations for certain languages.
>   So we should have a fallback to English.
>
>   11:14 <gjvoosten>
>   That would be most convenient.
>
>   
>> However, if you have a need, then I'm happy for mapbuilder to provide 
>> the functionality.
>>     
>
> It's not about *my* need for it.
>
>   
>> I assume that the config file should specify a language list:
>> Ie, in your case:
>>
>> Language=nl-BE, nl, en
>>     
>
> What would the benefit of that be?  Why not just lang=nl-BE and have
> MapBuilder take care of the rest?
>
> Regards,
>   


-- 
Cameron Shorter
Systems Architect, http://lisasoft.com.au
Tel: +61 (0)2 8570 5050
Mob: +61 (0)419 142 254


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