We just now completed working on SWING project which supports 5 Indian Languages along with English (Indic Scripts like Tamil, Malayalam, Telugu, Hindi, Bengali etc..). So, I don't see any problem in getting that to work in Java with any framework. As Dave said, it was a confusion b/w I18N O/P and encoding only.
Regards, Muthu -----Original Message----- From: Dave Newton [mailto:newton.d...@yahoo.com] Sent: Friday, June 19, 2009 5:25 AM To: Struts Users Mailing List Subject: Re: Localization in struts 2 Martin Gainty wrote: > the lang lookup algorithm uses the provided locale to lookup the accompanying text string > romance and germanic languages come from the common EUROPEAN base which originate from single byte character set(s) > converting to other languages employing Double Byte Character becomes problematic as representation for each character now takes 16 bits > this means that every component,application and bean on the application stack which will lookup that string needs to support DBCS > ALSO persisting DBCS information to a Database would require your DB to support DBCS types such as NCHAR,NINTEGER and NVARCHAR > > Moreover the architects of J2SE left out Hindi support so you will definitely have your work cut out for you > http://java.sun.com/javase/6/docs/technotes/guides/intl/encoding.doc.html AFAICT you're confusing I18N output with file encoding. > I would stick with Single Byte Character Set business languages such as german, french, spanish and italian Come on... there are tons of multi-byte Java apps. Not to mention that the OP has stated that it's working: http://www.mail-archive.com/user@struts.apache.org/msg89237.html Dave --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: user-unsubscr...@struts.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: user-h...@struts.apache.org --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: user-unsubscr...@struts.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: user-h...@struts.apache.org
