Good Afternoon Mike- The 'Standard caveats' apply -use UTF8 or UTF16 character set -separate your user view (jsps) from Application Logic (controller, session and or entity beans) -Nationality dependent data should be (re)factored in datamodel (e.g. US Health Care regulations is an example) -be ever so careful when implementing DBCS specifc datatypes (e.g. NCHAR, NVARCHAR, NINTEGER) Please take a look at http://www.oracle.com/technology//products/oracle8i/index.html for more details Anyone else?
Martin- ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mike Duffy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <user@struts.apache.org> Sent: Wednesday, December 28, 2005 1:10 PM Subject: [OT] Dynamic Updates for Internationalization >I am sending this [OT] topic to this list in hopes that someone has already >solved this design > problem. > > What is the best way to do dynamic updates for internationalization? > > Suppose you had a drop-down list and the labels for this list are translated > into other locales; > also, suppose that administrators can dynamically update this list. When an > administrator adds a > new item they would of course be adding the label in the language of their > current locale. > > It is a given that there would need to a work-flow for translating the > values. The basic question > is, what type of structure should be used to store the values. It seems like > a properties file > would be inadequate and that it would be necessary to store the values in a > database. > > As a very simple example, if there was a drop-down list for types of "Pets" > containing "cat", > "dog", "fish", etc. and a user added a new value, "hamster", the label would > go into the data > structure in the language of the user's current locale and a translator would > be notified to make > the translations for the other locales. Until the translations are complete, > the default value > could be the original value entered or the system could default to not > display any value until the > translations were complete. There are most likely many other related issues > that I have not yet > thought of. > > Please share your thoughts. > > Mike > > > > > > __________________________________________ > Yahoo! DSL - Something to write home about. > Just $16.99/mo. or less. > dsl.yahoo.com > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >
