On Tue, 5 Aug 2008, Jonathan Bennett wrote: > Can anyone tell me why JOSM uses the xnap tools for i18n rather than the > standard Java approach of Locales and StringBundles? > > My primary reason for asking is that I can't get JOSM to build under > NetBeans -- the latest version of the xnap-commons library lacks the > translation functions used. > > I'm willing to start hacking at the code to eliminate this dependency, > but I want to check it won't be wasted effort first...
When I remember correctly, Java has no "original string" based translation method like gettext. Also the GNU gettext toolchain cannot applied. I did research in this area half a year ago for another project and although powerfull, the Java internal methods disqualified for a number of important reasons. Ciao -- http://www.dstoecker.eu/ (PGP key available) _______________________________________________ josm-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/josm-dev
