> -----Original Message----- > From: Enke Michael [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, April 03, 2002 9:09 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: i18n: empty translation in XMLResourceBundle? > > > Konstantin Piroumian wrote: > > > > > From: Enke Michael [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > > Konstantin Piroumian wrote: > > > > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > > > From: Enke Michael [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > > > > Sent: Wednesday, April 03, 2002 5:02 PM > > > > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > Subject: i18n: empty translation in XMLResourceBundle? > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Hello, > > > > > I saw in I18nTransformer.java a comment: > > > > > <li>Introduce empty translation (XMLResourceBundle) > > > > > How does it work? Or is it only planned? > > > > > > > > Look a little upper: it's in the 'Future work' section. > > > Have no time right > > > > now to implement it and I've never understood the real use > > > of it. Why don't > > > > you use 'default' translation possibility? > > > > > > > > Regards, > > > > Konstantin Piroumian > > > > > > Hi Konstantin, > > > the reason for empty translation: > > > I get the relation, if lower, greater or equal from a > database. Also > > > the DB-column I get from a table in the DB. So I translate: > > > For relation >= "From Department" > > > For relation <= "To Department" > > > And for relation = I want to translate "Department" > (without From, > > > To or anything else). > > > > > > The solution would be very very simple: > > > Remove the trim() in XMLResourceBundle. This is my > proposal. Than I > > > can write: <message key="="> </message> and this will no longer > > > result in an untranslated-text. Anyhow, <message > key="="></message> > > > will result in an untranslated-text > > > > Did you try: <i18n:text key="=">Default text</i18n:text>? I don't > > remember how exactly does it act, but if it does not find > translation > > for "=" then it will either show 'Default text' or try to find > > translation for it. > > I don't want to have 'Default text' nor any other text. > > > Btw, did you try in dictionary? > > Yes, this works, but the alignment doesn't look good, e.g. > this: From Department To Department Department
Maybe a new entity with "" value will do the trick? Don't know if DTDs allow this kind of entities though. Konstantin > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
