[gradebook2-dev] Internationalization in GB2

[Beth Kirschner]

Sakai has it's own method for setting/getting a user's preferred locale:
	 (new org.sakaiproject.util.ResourceLoader()).getLocale();

I think we need to update the page at http://confluence.sakaiproject.org//x/C4DbAQ to provide some pointers for GWT tools, but it also looks like the current GB2 implementation will not respect the Sakai user preferences for locale. Thanks for adding a GRBK-770 to track the general I18N issue -- let me know when you're able to resolve this issue and I can update the confluence page with some tips for other users.

- Beth

On Oct 26, 2010, at 4:04 PM, Thomas Amsler wrote:

> Jim,
> 
> Please see inline comments bellow:
> 
> On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 11:22 AM, Jim Eng <jimeng at umich.edu> wrote:
>> Thanks, Thomas.  Especially for the link to the GWT i18n Dev Guide.  A link to that should be added to the page Beth referenced.
>> 
>> I have a couple questions, if you know the answers (if not, we'll figure it out). Very early in the GWT Dev Guide, it makes
>> reference to working within a web app that is part of a larger system with different i18n functionality.  Is there somewhere in the
>> GB2 code that connects up with Sakai's i18n impl's to get the default locale and the user's preferred locale (if that is different)?
> 
> No
> 
>>  And then within GB2 code, can we assume that the GWT code will
> honor those settings for locale for the current user?
> 
> Assuming that you support multiple translations, the user locales are
> defined/selected as described here:
> 
> http://code.google.com/webtoolkit/doc/latest/DevGuideI18nLocale.html
> 
> Let me know if I didn't fully answer this last question ?
> 
> Best,
> -- Thomas
> 
> 
>> 
>> Jim
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> On Oct 26, 2010, at 12:51 PM, Thomas Amsler wrote:
>> 
>>> In gradebook2, we are using the GWT i18n support as outlined here:
>>> http://code.google.com/webtoolkit/doc/latest/DevGuideI18n.html
>>> 
>>> The gradebook2 specific files are located here:
>>> 
>>> https://source.sakaiproject.org/contrib//gradebook2/trunk/shared/src/java/org/sakaiproject/gradebook/gwt/client/
>>> 
>>> I18nConstants.java
>>> I18nConstants.properties
>>> I18nMessages.java
>>> I18nMessages.properties
>>> 
>>> I have also created:
>>> http://jira.sakaiproject.org/browse/GRBK-770
>>> 
>>> ..., which we will use to cleanup all remaining i18n issues.
>>> 
>>> Best,
>>> -- Thomas
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 11:35 AM, Jim Eng <jimeng at umich.edu> wrote:
>>>> I would like to ask about the way that i18n is done in GB2. I noticed a few
>>>> places where strings were created by appending strings and numbers in
>>>> various orders to assemble a string to be displayed in the UI. That is sort
>>>> of like the approach we took back in the earliest days of sakai:
>>>> 
>>>> String str = rl.getString("hey-there") + user.getName() +
>>>> rl.getString("how-ya-doing");
>>>> 
>>>> It turns out that the order of words in a sentence may be different in
>>>> different languages. :-)
>>>> 
>>>> Instead of that, we now add a string to the language bundle that looks
>>>> something like this:
>>>> 
>>>> hey-how-ya-doin = Hey, there, {0}! How ya doing!?
>>>> 
>>>> Then we call a method on the resource loader that inserts the value of
>>>> user.getName() into the string in place of the placeholder "{0}". A string
>>>> can have zero or more placeholders, and our code must supply values for each
>>>> of them. Not sure exactly how the resource loader shows up in GB2, but it
>>>> should use this pattern also. If that's not the way it's done in the
>>>> existing GB2 codebase, as we revise things and add to it, we should make it
>>>> work like that.
>>>> 
>>>> Jim
>>>> 
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