Re: i18n/l10n question
On 2/26/2012 11:30 PM, Novice wrote:
Arne Vajh?j<arne@vajhoej.dk> wrote in
news:4f4aeb0f$0$286$14726298@news.sunsite.dk:
On 2/26/2012 9:16 PM, Novice wrote:
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?
I would prefer something global.
Local setDefault seems intended for this usage.
If I'm following you correctly then, the program that is running should
obtain the desired Locale - probably via JVM parameters -Duser.country
and -Duser.language but maybe from a menu in the GUI - then do
Locale.setDefault(). Then all classes instantiated by that class should
just do Locale.getDefault() locally so that they use the same locale. Is
that about right?
I think that you need to use the -D's *or* (not and) use Locale.setDefault,
but else yes.
Arne
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