[WG: I18N & L10N] [Building Sakai] how to set ? (i18n best practice included)

[Aaron Zeckoski]

There is also this.
http://docs.oracle.com/javase/6/docs/api/java/util/Properties.html
No proprietary code is needed to load properties files really.
-AZ


On Tue, Sep 4, 2012 at 6:58 AM, Steve Swinsburg
<steve.swinsburg at gmail.com> wrote:
> Agreed, this makes it difficult to translate accurately.
>
> Bryan, there is a separate properties file loader in the Sakai Wicket Maven
> Archetype that uses commons-configuration to load in SQL properties (could
> be any arbitrary property though), might be useful here.
>
> cheers,
> Steve
>
>
> On Tue, Sep 4, 2012 at 6:34 PM, Jean-Francois Leveque
> <jean-francois.leveque at upmc.fr> wrote:
>>
>> I think the key that have values that should be translated should be in
>> a different file than the ones that have values that should not be
>> translated.
>>
>> Using ResourceLoader to load values that should not be translated is
>> dangerous because it renders the debug locale (en_US_DEBUG) useless. It
>> also creates a risk of a local (or submitted) translation breaking Sakai.
>>
>> Comments in the file are not enough, AFAICT.
>>
>> Please create i18n files that can completely be translated and use
>> ResourceLoader and create separate files for values that should not be
>> translated and do not use ResourceLoader to load these values.
>> ResourceLoader is tailor-made for Sakai i18n and it shouldn't be used
>> for anything that is not i18n.
>>
>> Thanks
>> J-F
>>
>> On 01/08/2012 18:11, Bryan Holladay wrote:
>> > The issue is that the translation translated more than it should have.
>> >   The tutorial tool uses the properties file differently than most
>> > tools in order to easily add new pages without having to make any code
>> > changes.  There are only two places where you should translate:
>> > anything that ends with ".title" or ".body".  The rest are used by the
>> > tool to know where to show the page, what to point to and what is the
>> > next/previous page.  The mongolian translation translated too much.
>> > Matt J has created a ticket
>> > https://jira.sakaiproject.org/browse/SAK-22443 for this issue.  I
>> > should have put comments in the properties file about this.
>> >
>> > Thanks
>> > Bryan
>> >
>> > On Wed, Aug 1, 2012 at 2:11 AM, Matthew Jones<matthew at longsight.com>
>> > wrote:
>> >> The tutorial is a new feature for 2.9 and we plan to disable it for the
>> >> regular release because it won't be translated to all languages in time
>> >> for
>> >> 2.9.0. What you're seeing is probably a bug in general with the
>> >> tutorial
>> >> entity not correctly picking up the language set in the session (or
>> >> even
>> >> possibly on the server)
>> >>
>> >> You can disable it with the property
>> >> portal.use.tutorial=false
>> >>
>> >> We'd have to look at why it's not working.
>> >>
>> >> https://source.sakaiproject.org/svn//help/trunk/help-component/src/java/org/sakaiproject/component/app/help/TutorialEntityProviderImpl.java
>> >>
>> >> Someone's already submitted translated files, but I'd doubt it was
>> >> actually
>> >> tested with any language other than English.
>> >>
>> >> As far as the footer, that is a property that by default is this:
>> >>
>> >> #bottomnav.count = 3
>> >> #bottomnav.1 =<a href="/portal/site/!gateway">Gateway</a>
>> >> #bottomnav.2 =<a href="/portal/pda">Mobile View</a>
>> >> #bottomnav.3 =<a href="http://www.sakaiproject.org/"
>> >> target="_blank">The
>> >> Sakai Project</a>
>> >>
>> >> On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 11:23 PM, Baynaa_sk<baynaa.sk at gmail.com>
>> >> wrote:
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>> Whenever new user registers to the system and the system automatically
>> >>> logs
>> >>> in the new user, all the tools are displayed in English.
>> >>>
>> >>> When new user logs in, the system shows tutorial page in English.
>> >>> Where
>> >>> can
>> >>> I find these tutorial files so that I can translated them to
>> >>> Mongolian?
>> >>>
>> >>> Is it possible to modify Sakai footer? for example, I would like add
>> >>> little
>> >>> different description to the footer.
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