Hi, Joe. I'd rather not add any non breaking spaces to the messages. You don't know how long a message might become (typically each language needs another amount of words to express the same, and english is pretty short compared to others). The problem you actually have is a layout problem, and it should be dealt with in the UI.
So you better leave that problem to your HTML designer, who may choose to - make a layout that allows long messages - hack all the JSPs - delegate the problem to the browser that tries to word wrap everything so it fits on the user's screen. I prefer the last one, since a user with bad eyes may choose to use bigger fonts and accepts to read more lines of text. Personally I use such features when I present some web application on a beamer.... Hiran ----------------------------------------- Hiran Chaudhuri SAG Systemhaus GmbH Elsenheimer Straße 11 80867 München Phone +49-89-54 74 21 34 Fax +49-89-54 74 21 99 > -----Original Message----- > From: Joe Hertz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Mittwoch, 13. Oktober 2004 23:12 > To: 'Struts Users Mailing List' > Subject: i18n and > > I have a number of property values that will be > internationalized and need non-breaking spaces between each > word in them. > > I could put into each space, but that > > 1) is going to confuse my native language translators who > know nothing of HTML. 2 words in english could be 3 in language-x). > > 2) would be wrong. > > There doesn't appear to be any built in method of handling > this with bean:message or anything else, so I'm about to > write a custom configuration class for a separate Message > Resource Bundle that will contain the properties where I want > spaces displayed as " "'s > > I have a hard time believing no one else has run into > this...so I ask the > following: > > Do I need to do this? Is there a way of doing it without > writing a custom handler? or a better way of doing it? And if > not, who wants to see the code when it's done? :-) > > -Joe > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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]