[jboss-dev] jboss i18n and localization (l10n)

[Jason T. Greene]

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).

-- 
Jason T. Greene
Lead, POJO Cache
JBoss, a division of Red Hat