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

[Thomas Raehalme]

On Oct 8, 2015 6:53 AM, "Stian Thorgersen" <sthorger at redhat.com> wrote:
>
> 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

A missing key is a bug and showing the message in the default locale may
hide the problem.

Even though showing the key does not help the end user it helps the
developer and identifies the problem. For this reason I think showing the
key would be a good idea.

> * Should we change message bundles to UTF-8? Or is ISO 8859-1 going to
work for all languages?

Depends what those all languages are :-)

I think UTF-8 is the best choice as it will handle practically any
character.

But if you're referring to Java resource bundles the encoding for
.properties is ISO-8859-1 but there are means to handle any UTF-8 character.

Best regards,
Thomas

>
> 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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