Landon, 1. Long strings should be fine, although if you start having a bunch of HTML in there then maybe look at having a I18N mechanism for HTML fragments.
2. What I typically do is define a constant for each of my I18N strings and use those where required. Paul Sunburned Surveyor wrote: > I've almost finished the internationalization of the Super Select > Plug-In. I had a couple of questions about best practices for I18N in > Java: > > [1] Is there a limit to the size of a String that should be > internationalized in a Resource Bundle? For example, I have a couple > paragraphs of help text that appear in a little JFrame. Is this really > appropriate for internationlization, or is the internationalization > method only meant for shorter and more terse phrases. (Longer strings > just look a little odd in the prbEditor interface.) > > [2] I've decided to put all my internationalization code in a separate > method of each of my GUI classes, instead of having them sprinkled > throught the code that sets up and intializes each JComponent on my > form. I think this has some advantages, especially if someone ever > wants to modify our mechanism for accessing I18N Strings. Does anyone > see a problem with this approach. > > Landon > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft > Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. > http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ > _______________________________________________ > Jump-pilot-devel mailing list > Jump-pilot-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jump-pilot-devel > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Jump-pilot-devel mailing list Jump-pilot-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jump-pilot-devel
