[keycloak-dev] i18n/l10n: English text in java code

[Stian Thorgersen]

With regards to internationalization I have two questions:

* Should we fallback to English messages if a key is missing in a
translation? Alternative is to show key, but that's not going to help anyone
* Should we change message bundles to UTF-8? Or is ISO 8859-1 going to work
for all languages?

On 7 October 2015 at 18:42, Stan Silvert <ssilvert at redhat.com> wrote:

> Marko brought this to my attention yesterday.  For some things, we
> dynamically create UI.  In this case, the java code contains the English
> text and it needs to be localized.  Luckily, the solution was pretty
> straightforward.  We just replace the English text with a key into the
> message bundle.  The html template that displays this text already pulls
> from an Angular scope so we just leave that alone and pass it through
> the |translate filter.  You do need to also add the double-colon.
>
> One nice side effect is that if the key is not found in the bundle then
> the output of the translate filter is the unchanged text.  This means
> that any code which has not converted to using bundle keys will still
> work as expected.   And, any third-party providers can just pass in
> plain text if they don't care about l10n.  If they ever do care about
> l10n we will just need to provide a means for them to add key/value
> pairs to the resource bundles.
>
> Here is an example for anyone who needs to localize English text
> embedded in java:
>
> https://github.com/ssilvert/keycloak/commit/c9437595b70810c4472325373dd8833c37be8549
>
> Stan
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