Re: Using gettext (was Translation updates: errors_ru.properties)

On Thu, 7 Oct 2004, Serguei A. Mokhov wrote:

> They use gettext! :-)
>
> I googled for java+gettext+gnu and found:

That wasn't the quer
>
> http://www.gnu.org/software/gettext/manual/html_chapter/gettext_13.html#SEC205
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> Citation:
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> 13.5.10 Java
>
> RPMs
> java, java2
>
> File extension
> java
>
> String syntax
> "abc"
>
> gettext shorthand
> _("abc")
>
> gettext/ngettext functions
> GettextResource.gettext, GettextResource.ngettext
>
> textdomain
> ---, use ResourceBundle.getResource instead
>
> bindtextdomain
> ---, use CLASSPATH instead
>
> setlocale
> automatic
>
> Prerequisite
> ---
>
> Use or emulate GNU gettext
> ---, uses a Java specific message catalog format
>
> Extractor
> xgettext -k_
>
> Formatting with positions
> MessageFormat.format "{1,number} {0,number}"
>
> Portability
> fully portable
>
> po-mode marking
> ---
> Before marking strings as internationalizable, uses of the string
> concatenation operator need to be converted to MessageFormat applications.
> For example, "file "+filename+" not found" becomes
> MessageFormat.format("file {0} not found", new Object[] { filename }).
> Only after this is done, can the strings be marked and extracted.
>
> GNU gettext uses the native Java internationalization mechanism, namely
> ResourceBundles. To convert a PO file to a ResourceBundle, the msgfmt
> program can be used with the option --java or --java2. To convert a
> ResourceBundle back to a PO file, the msgunfmt program can be used with
> the option --java.
>
> Two different programmatic APIs can be used to access ResourceBundles.
> Note that both APIs work with all kinds of ResourceBundles, whether GNU
> gettext generated classes, or other .class or .properties files.
>
>
> The java.util.ResourceBundle API.
> In particular, its getString function returns a string translation. Note
> that a missing translation yields a MissingResourceException.
>
> This has the advantage of being the standard API. And it does not require
> any additional libraries, only the msgfmt generated .class files. But it
> cannot do plural handling, even if the resource was generated from a PO
> file with plural handling.
>
>
> The gnu.gettext.GettextResource API.
> Reference documentation in Javadoc 1.1 style format is in the javadoc1
> directory and in Javadoc 2 style format in the javadoc2 directory.
>
> Its gettext function returns a string translation. Note that when a
> translation is missing, the msgid argument is returned unchanged.
>
> This has the advantage of having the ngettext function for plural
> handling.
>
> To use this API, one needs the libintl.jar file which is part of the GNU
> gettext package and distributed under the LGPL.
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>
> > Kris Jurka
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