[izpack-devel] Langpacks as properties files

[miraodb]

Hi Klaus,

First of all sorry my silence lately... been crazy at work and in life in 
general.

I wanted to check with you if your work would affect in any ways my current 
work that I was about to submit.

Do you mind if I send you my pieces of code with some explanations of 
course.

The main idea to make any panel multi and as customizable as possible.

Let me know.
Cheers,
Fabrice

----- Original Message -----
From: "Bartz, Klaus" <Klaus.Bartz at coi.de>
To: <izpack-devel at lists.berlios.de>
Sent: Friday, April 20, 2007 5:52 AM
Subject: Re: [izpack-devel] Langpacks as properties files

> Sorry, that with HTML is nonsens. I meant XML...
>
> Cheers
>
> Klaus
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: izpack-devel-bounces at lists.berlios.de
>> [mailto:izpack-devel-bounces at lists.berlios.de] On Behalf Of
>> Bartz, Klaus
>> Sent: Friday, April 20, 2007 10:42 AM
>> To: izpack-devel at lists.berlios.de
>> Subject: [izpack-devel] Langpacks as properties files
>>
>>
>> Hi all,
>> in the moment I am working at the langpacks.
>> Some weeks ago we have discussed it a little bit
>> and decided to change to properties files and remove
>> flags.
>> In the moment I have an converter from our HTML format
>> to properties format ready. I use a HTML helper from
>> Elmar which uses the standard stuff.
>> Not all old HTML files are convertable because some
>> contains bad utf-8 sequences. E.g. ukr.xml.
>>
>>
>> The properties file format is ugly to read for chars
>> other than ASCII, e.g.:
>> English:
>> installer.warning=Warning\!
>> Turkish:
>> installer.warning=Uyar\u00C3\u00BD\!
>> Japanese:
>> installer.warning=\u8B66\u544A \!
>>
>> I think this is not editable. Therefore I am writing
>> a little, simple, ugly tool which shows the text as
>> seen in the IzPanels and allow to edit it. I do not
>> implement any way to write the glyphs with an English
>> mapped keybord, else I assume that the user has the
>> needed keybord mapping activated. On MS Windows XP
>> this works better as I have assumed. I have tested it
>> with RU. I cannot read it, but I can write chars which
>> looks like some which are present in the converted file.
>>
>> My votes:
>> 1.
>> I vote to remove the old stuff (files like eng.xml)
>> fully and support only properties files beginning with the
>> next medium relase(3.11).
>> The standard langpacks we (I) can convert. Custom langpacks
>> have to be converted by the install builder with the given
>> converter.
>>
>> 2.
>> I vote to make the bad langpacks public in the user email
>> list and remove them in the next medium release (3.11),
>> if they are not corrected.
>>
>> Any comments?
>>
>> Cheers
>>
>> Klaus
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