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i18n/l10n question

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This is basically a variant on the "additional logging questions" thread 
I just started but with a focus on i18n.

I'd like all of my classes to be locale-sensitive so that all of the 
things they are displaying in GUIs, including text and error messages, 
are displayed in the user's language (or, more precisely, the language in 
the resource bundle that is the "closest fit" to the language of the 
user). 

Given that my programs instantiate a variety of classes that themselves 
display text or error messages, those classes also need to know what 
locale the program is using. Would I be right to pass a reference to the 
locale of the main program to each class that it instantiates? Or should 
I be doing things differently?

Also, what if a class isn't GUI-related at all? Should I still pass a 
locale anyway? Again, I'm thinking of things like Enums. I wouldn't 
normally expect an Enum to display text of any kind to a user, at least 
directly. (The enum might determine that day number 1 in the week is 
Monday and pass Monday to a class that displays that but the enum itself 
isn't displaying Monday.) What about a holder class (again, assuming I'm 
using that term correctly; I described my guess in the "additional 
logging questions" thread): I don't see much need for it to ever display 
text to a user (or an error message).

And what about logs? I know that the java.util.logging classes provide 
for resource bundles so that the messages in the logs can be in other 
languages. How common is it for log messages to be in languages other 
than English? I have no experience with that. So much computer-related 
stuff seems to be in English first (or English only) that I'm not sure if 
a European company, say, would write log messages in English even if it 
isn't the main local language (in Germany say) or would they often write 
them in the local language?

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Novice

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i18n/l10n question Novice <novice@example..com> - 2012-02-27 02:16 +0000
  Re: i18n/l10n question Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2012-02-26 21:31 -0500
    Re: i18n/l10n question Novice <novice@example..com> - 2012-02-27 04:30 +0000
      Re: i18n/l10n question Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2012-02-27 17:01 -0500
  Re: i18n/l10n question David Lamb <dalamb@cs.queensu.ca> - 2012-02-28 07:21 -0500
    Re: i18n/l10n question Novice <novice@example..com> - 2012-02-29 14:46 +0000
      Re: i18n/l10n question David Lamb <dalamb@cs.queensu.ca> - 2012-03-10 09:13 -0500

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