The <fmt:requestEncoding value="UTF-8" /> tag performs the same function as
the following:
<%@ page contentType="text/html;charSet=UTF-8" %>
right?
So, was this tag added to clean it up a little and make it less confusing to
the page designer?
Thanks,
Cindy
>From: Jan Luehe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Reply-To: Jan Luehe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: Re: I18N <messageArg> tag
>Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2001 09:59:39 -0800 (PST)
>
>Cindy:
>
>
> > I'm trying to figure out <messageArg> tag. The specs say, "If the
>message
> > corresponding to the given key is compound, that is, contains one or
>more
> > variables, it can be supplied with argument values for these variables
>by
> > using a <messageArg> subtag for each argument value"
> >
> > The example in the specs:
> >
> > <fmt:message key="Welcome">
> > <fmt:messageArg value="$dateArg"/>
> > </fmt:message>
> >
> > Does this mean that the 'Welcome' key contains more than one value? Is
>the
> > <messageArg> tag printing a date that is grabbed from the resource
>bundle?
>
>In the above example, the message key "Welcome" could have been mapped
>to a message of the following form:
>
> Welcome! Today's date: {0}
>
>which would have been looked up in the appropriate resource bundle.
>
>"{0}" is a placeholder that gets replaced with the argument value
>supplied by the <messageArg> action, in this case, the date
>stored in the scoped attribute named "dateArg".
>
> > Welcome = "welcome"
> > Welcome.dateArg = "Monday, January 2nd, 2002"
> >
> > But, it's not because the '$dateArg' is a scoped variable.
>
>No. Another way of achieving the same result would have been:
>
> <fmt:message key="Welcome">
> <fmt:messageArg>
> <fmt:formatDate/>
> </fmt:messageArg>
> </fmt:message>
>
> > So, why bother with the messageArg tag?
>
>There's a good tutorial section on formatting compound messages at
>
> http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/i18n/format/messageintro.html
>
>Let me know if that still leaves any questions you might have open.
>
>
>Jan
>
>
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