Hi Chris,

Am 11.02.25 um 00:18 schrieb Christopher Schultz:
Rainer,

On 2/10/25 11:11 AM, Rainer Jung wrote:
Am 10.02.25 um 17:02 schrieb Mark Thomas:
On 10/02/2025 13:55, Christopher Schultz wrote:

Assuming we agree that the official releases of Tomcat should have documentation in English, then I have a further proposal:

+1

  - Add "locale" attribute to the <javadoc> tasks in the build with
    an explicit locale

+1

For release-managers, I will update the pre-release target to include javadoc-locale=en_US (or en_GB or just 'en' if we like).

I don't think it matters. Anything that varies (e.g. date format) we already use an unambiguous form anyway.

In build.properties.default, I will set javadoc-locale to ${user.language}.

I think that is fine since .release takes priority over .default

This should allow anyone downstream to build javadocs in their own language (either via git clone or pulling the source and removing the javadoc-locale in build.properties.release) and also users in non- English default locales to verify a release build.

Now that I've written the above paragraph, it does mean that it's not trivial for a user to build the javadocs in their own language. I'd love to hear some suggestions for how to do that with an official source package. Maybe the "release" target can set the locale somehow. ATM, the <property> tasks that set up all the properties are outside any target and apply before any targets get to run, so they cannot be conditional. We could change that if we want to, though...

build.properties always takes priority so they just need to set a locale in there.

II agree with everything but note that IMHO at least on Linux the environment variable LANG takes precedence. I could not build english javadocs with the javascript locale attribute or user.lang or whatever Java properties when LANG pointed to a german locale.

Thanks for the clarification.

I'm sorry if you've answered this already, but if you add locale="en" to the javadoc task:

<javadoc [stuff]
   locale="en"
   ...
</javadooc>

When I did this with "export LANG=de" on MacOS, I was able to get English-language javadoc UI. But... I was NOT able to get German- language javadoc by setting "export LANG=de" and not-specifying the locale in <javadoc>.

Setting the env var LANG to de_DE.UTF-8 - which is the default on my system - and adding locale="en" to the 7 or so <javadoc> calls in build.xml and rebuilding everything still produces javadoc files with german template text. Example: files package-tree.html contain the word "Klassenhierarchie" (class hierarchy) and "Baum" (tree) etc.

Tested for TC 11 and using Java jdk-23.0.2+7 (Adoptium).

But that might be handled by a build docs notice.

I will retry the experiment when the new props are in.

Try the above and let me know if it works. If LANG continues to take precedence then we need some other solution.

-chris

Best regards,

Rainer


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