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Jacques Le Roux commented on OFBIZ-1442:
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http://translate.sourceforge.net/wiki/ is not available tonight. Inside of
OFBiz I have used a such tool (the RBE plugin in Eclipse
http://docs.ofbiz.org/display/OFBIZ/Plugins#Plugins-RBE) and I have tried
without success to make it the official i18n/l10n tool in OFBiz community (I
guess some are using it). For my part I really like to use it but it has also
some drawbacks (mainly due to the inconsistent state of properties files in
OFBiz).
For David's points,
1. Sounds good
2.
if I were adding a new language it would be nice to not have to have multiple
files open and either jump around to those files to get the original labels or
to be forced to use some sort of tool to manage the multiple files;
RBE is this tool so far, no more comments
also having multiple files to review and add to increases the chances of
getting a property key wrong (which has happened a few times),
Easy to deal with with RBE
and even worse on the maintenance side it makes it really prone to inconsistent
property sets in different files unless a tool is used to help keep them
consistent
Still RBE
3. No sure for foreign language (Chinese, Arab, Russian, Hebrew, etc.). In RBE
you see them in their own character (but Chinese IIRW, maybe some fonts ?)
To summarize my opinion,
a. reality has proved that we can't have a strong policy to keep all properties
files consistent. Then even with a tool like RBE, it sometimes difficult to
take care of all aspects.
b. I can see some advantages with a sole file, but I have to practice it before
being really convinced.
c. There is another annoying aspect with properties file : the way Sun deals
with default language which obliges us to put -Duser.language=en in our starter
files.
> Add ability to use XML property files for locale-specific properties
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> Key: OFBIZ-1442
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OFBIZ-1442
> Project: OFBiz
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: framework
> Reporter: Adrian Crum
> Priority: Minor
> Attachments: xml_props.patch, xml_props.patch, xml_props_demo.patch
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> As per discussion on the dev mailing list, implement XML property files.
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