Steve Ebersole wrote:
> what is Gettext?Xliff?
These are things the doc team keep mentioning to me. They are meant for full
blown translations as in docs. They seem total overkill for this, especially
the PO stuff. Java internationalization (no idea about this IBM stuff) is
based on already externalized strings kept in a file separate from the code
for easy translation.
GNU Gettext is a portable localization API. It's main advantage over
Java i8ln is that it can handle the plural form problem.
For example:
System.out.println(num + " file(s) changed");
This doesn't map well to other languages because many of them have
different rules for plurals (some have as many as 3 with a special form
for zero).
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Jason T. Greene
Lead, POJO Cache
JBoss, a division of Red Hat