Hi,
since you're doing this inside a servlet, it runs on the server and thus
returns the text in the language of the server. If the server uses
spanish locale and your client is english-speaking, it would still send the
spanish version even if an english version would be available. This is
usually not intended.
Instead, you must get the information on the desired locale from the
clients browser then you can use the ResourceBundles as you indicate.
Regards
HEIKO
Martin Kuba <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on 27-07-99 09:43:20
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Subject: Re: Multilingual Support
Mahesh Patil wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I want to write an application in which I want to display html text( and
> html controls ) in different languages. Basically an application using
> Servlets which has multilingual support. The user is allowed to select
any
> language and then all displayed pages will be in that language. Does
> anybody have an Idea, how to do it ???? I want to support almost all
> languages........Please reply even if you know a bit about this.
> Thanks
> Mahesh
Your servlets should display text in this way:
----------------------------------
import java.io.*;
import java.util.*;
import java.text.*;
import javax.servlet.*;
import javax.servlet.http.*;
public class Kod extends HttpServlet
{
public void doGet (HttpServletRequest request,
HttpServletResponse response)
throws ServletException, IOException
{
Locale deflocale = Locale.getDefault();
ResourceBundle texts = ResourceBundle.getBundle("Textfile",deflocale);
response.setContentType("text/html;charset=UTF-8");
PrintWriter out = response.getWriter();
out.println("<HTML><BODY>");
out.println(texts.getString("idtext")+"< BR>");
out.println("</BODY></HTML>");
out.close();
}
----------------------------------
Then make a file "Textfile.txt" with content like this:
--------------Textfile.txt--------------------
idtext=Default text if no locale specified
----------------------------------------------
and one file for each locale you want to use:
--------------Textfile_en_US.txt--------------
idtext=Text for US english
----------------------------------------------
--------------Textfile_cs_CZ.txt--------------
idtext=Text pro cestinu v Cechach a na Morave
----------------------------------------------
Then translate all files to UNICODE:
native2ascii -encoding ISO-8859-1 Textfile.txt Textfile.properties
native2ascii -encoding ISO-8859-1 Textfile_en_US.txt
Textfile_en_US.properties
native2ascii -encoding Cp1250 Textfile_cs_CZ.txt Textfile_cs_CZ.properties
So you will have *.properties file for each locale.
Then just specify some specific locale instead of default
locale in the ResourceBundle.getBundle() method.
Martin
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