The list of supported message libraries looks wrong
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Key: DERBY-3846
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/DERBY-3846
Project: Derby
Issue Type: Bug
Components: Documentation
Affects Versions: 10.4.1.3
Reporter: Rick Hillegas
The "Messages libraries" section of the Derby Developer's Guide says that Derby
"supports" a number of locales:
* derbyLocale_de_DE.jar German
* derbyLocale_es.jar - Spanish
* derbyLocale_fr.jar - French
* derbyLocale_it.jar - Italian
* derbyLocale_ja_JP.jar - Japanese
* derbyLocale_ko_KR.jar - Korean
* derbyLocale_pt_BR.jar - Brazilian Portuguese
* derbyLocale_zh_CN.jar - Simplified Chinese
* derbyLocale_zh_TW.jar - Traditional Chinese
In fact, in addition to these locales, Derby provides localizations for some
others (see http://wiki.apache.org/db-derby/LocalizingDerbyMessages):
* derbyLocale_cs.jar - Czech
* derbyLocale_hu.jar - Hungarian
* derbyLocale_pl.jar - Polish (except for sysinfo)
* derbyLocale_ru.jar - Russian
The term "supports" may overdescribe the situation. Effort has been put into
keeping some of these localizations up-to-date, although I don't think that any
systematic effort has been put into verifying that any of our non-English
locales are really current. Some locales have not been updated recently. Here's
the list of locales which received fresh localizations in 10.4 (see
http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/DERBY-3804):
German
Spanish
French
Italian
Japanese
Korean
Traditional and Simplified Chinese
This means that the Developer's Guide is claiming that Derby "supports"
Portuguese, even though it's clear that those localizations are drifting out of
sync with the English messages.
We should correct the "Message libraries" section:
1) We should decide what we mean by "supports". This term could mean
a) Derby provides SOME localized messages for the locale or
b) The localizations are being actively maintained
2) Based on what how we resolve (1), we should add or subtract locales from the
list in "Message libraries"
My gut feeling is that we should list all of the locales for which we provide
localizations and this section should note that some locales are maintained
better than others.
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