Re: [jbosstools-dev] XModel and i18n

On 2009-06-19 22:07, Viacheslav Kabanovich wrote: That's great, thanks Slava. It would also be really helpful if you could mark (with NON-NLS comments) the strings that don't need translation. Or, if it's easier, externalize the strings which need it, and I'll add the comments myself, on everything else in org.jboss.tools.common.model.*. I'm having trouble making the distinction myself since I don't always understand the strings I'm seeing. I mean, I can usually tell that "true" or "validator.add" should not be translated (and is likely to break something if it were), but it's hard for me to say if "{0} can contain only {1} child with entity {2}." really needs translation. That UI string is obviously meant to be read by a human, not a computer, but I can't tell whether an end-user will ever see it. I would have to know how DefaultWizardDataValidator gets used. OTOH, if you can, say, confirm that these strings are only seen by JBoss Tools developers, we could just mark the entire common.model plugins as non-translatable and save a lot of work. Some days I wonder if it even makes sense to translate development tools, but then I remember all the contributed translations for Eclipse and the Japanese contribution for JBoss Tools. Some people are definitely keen to have native support, but sometimes it's hard to know where the line should be drawn. -- Sean Flanigan Senior Software Engineer Engineering - Internationalisation Red Hat