Steve Brewin wrote: Cancel my query "I'm not clear how you intend to determine a useful locale for the reader of the message from the server side. How would the target locale be obtained?" Danny's link provides an answer.
Cheers -- Steve > > robert burrell donkin wrote: > > > > > > On 6/4/07, Danny Angus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Robert wrote: > > > > > > > the IMAP protocol returns a lot of messages which must be > > appropriate > > > > for display on the client. ATM these messages are just > hard-coded > > > > strings. it would probably be good to be able to > reasonably easily > > > > localise them based on the user. > > > > > > > > opinions? > > > > > > I agree, I googled briefly for anything that might help us > > here and I > > > got this, dated June 2007, so fairly current! :-) > > > > > > "Internet Message Access Protocol Internationalization" > > > http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-imapext-i18n-01 > > > > great! > > > > (i bow to your superior google-foo) > > > > > ... but it fails to meet your requirement because it has the > > > translations on the server. > > > > sorry for misleading you: IMAP protocol specification means that > > localisation on the server is the only reasonable approach. > so, i was > > thinking about doing just that. > > > > it probably makes sense to replace the message strings in the james > > IMAP API with a interface that supports i18n. should probably factor > > create into a factory. factory method should take a string > key so that > > it's easy to use the java i18n mechanism. unless any knows of a good > > reasons to do otherwise, might as well use standard Locale. > something > > like: > > > > http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/james/server/sandbox/design-do > odles/i18n/DisplayText.png > > > opinions? > > Take a look at http://www.icu-project.org/index.html. ICU4J > is widely used > as it tends to be 1 or 2 major versions in front of what a > JDK offers while > offering a stable target when supporting multiple JDK's. > > I'm not clear how you intend to determine a useful locale for > the reader of > the message from the server side. How would the target locale > be obtained? > > Cheers > > -- Steve > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
