Hello Michael,
Am 24.03.2015 um 18:31 schrieb Michael Fang:
Hi Jabob,
Thank you very much for contributing to the translation of native2ascii tool and
jar tool.
The information displayed on http://openjdk.java.net/groups/i18n was created
prior to JDK8. Due to Makefile updates, the localization instruction does not
work anymore. We need to fix this page ASAP.
Yeah, I have noticed this too, right after I had localized
sun/tools/javac/resources/javac.properties only to find out that it is used by
the outdated compiler only. I should have started with
com/sun/tools/javac/resources/javac.properties. But anyway, now I have localized
them both.
Currently, we are not able to support additional language translation in OpenJDK
bundles without also including them in Oracle JDK bundles.
Why is this a problem? Everybody is free to use OpenJDK in their products,
including Oracle. And, if you are referring to the fact that additional
localizations may possibly require additional customer support then I will have
to disappoint you: Various currently "supported" localizations are incomplete in
various places, tools, and components, eg. like de or sv. So, "requiring
additional support" is actually an invalid argument.
Another possibility for Oracle - if Oracle /really/ wants to waste existing
language support - is to foster a build infrastructure that drops localization
support for certain locales at build time. It is odd and perhaps inconvenient
but possible.
To add additional localization to your environment, you could create a jar file
with translated
resource files and place the jar file under <java_home>/lib/ext directory (works
up to JDK8).
Yes, I know. But, this would be rather tedious for many people to install.
Besides, this/these multi-language JAR file(s) would have to be hosted somewhere
for people to find and download easily. Including all localizations into OpenJDK
and then perhaps excluding them for Oracle JDK is probably the best way to go.
Regards,
Jacob
On 2015年03月09日 13:10, Jacob Wisor wrote:
Hello there!
I have added pl localization to the JAR tool. However, I did not find the
make/common/Defs.gmk file which is referenced here:
http://openjdk.java.net/groups/i18n.
Please review this patch. More tools are coming! ;-)
Regards,
Jacob
