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Re: i18n/l10n question

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On 26/02/2012 9:16 PM, Novice wrote:
> 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).

My approach might be excessively convoluted, but I think it's 
appropriately more general that just getting the default locale.

I have written and experimental program where the user might want to 
change locale while running the program, because they were demonstrating 
something to a non-native speaker on a machine where they wouldn't want 
to exit and restart with new locale parameters. Haven't had a chance to 
get very far yet, but I thought it might be useful in my 
university-level teaching environment where we get a lot of 
international students.

In this case, the individual packages that report to users get told what 
the locale is and have to be prepared to have some package-appropriate 
collection of Observer class(es) be told to change in mid-stream. A 
package would have to register its Observer(s) with a central authority, 
which authority then reacts to GUI operations (such as a collection of 
language-specific menus, or a dialog box to set locale arbitrarily). Of 
course there also has to be some associated method for getting the 
localization strings but that's already well understood as involving 
property files or XML files.

I really have to get back to that experiment; given all those 
international students it ought to be possible to get everything 
translated for some small example program.

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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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