• Post Reply Bookmark Topic Watch Topic
  • New Topic
programming forums Java Mobile Certification Databases Caching Books Engineering Micro Controllers OS Languages Paradigms IDEs Build Tools Frameworks Application Servers Open Source This Site Careers Other Pie Elite all forums
this forum made possible by our volunteer staff, including ...
Marshals:
  • Campbell Ritchie
  • Jeanne Boyarsky
  • Ron McLeod
  • Paul Clapham
  • Liutauras Vilda
Sheriffs:
  • paul wheaton
  • Rob Spoor
  • Devaka Cooray
Saloon Keepers:
  • Stephan van Hulst
  • Tim Holloway
  • Carey Brown
  • Frits Walraven
  • Tim Moores
Bartenders:
  • Mikalai Zaikin

Internationalization and Word Order

 
Ranch Hand
Posts: 327
  • Mark post as helpful
  • send pies
    Number of slices to send:
    Optional 'thank-you' note:
  • Quote
  • Report post to moderator
I want to have an internationalized String that takes the following format:

Returned results for "PLACEHOLDER" in:

where PLACEHOLDER is something dynamic that is returned from a data store and is already internationalized.

I was thinking that I could have two keys in a properties file:

1) returned=Returned results for
2) returned.part.two=in:

The problem is that I know that word order can vary in different languages (English, Spanish, etc) and that it would be difficult for a translator to get the word order correct for a String that is made up of multiple parts.

How are people doing this? Please help. Thanks.
 
Marshal
Posts: 28193
95
Eclipse IDE Firefox Browser MySQL Database
  • Mark post as helpful
  • send pies
    Number of slices to send:
    Optional 'thank-you' note:
  • Quote
  • Report post to moderator
From the API docs for java.text.MessageFormat:

"MessageFormat provides a means to produce concatenated messages in language-neutral way. Use this to construct messages displayed for end users."

Sounds exactly like your question. You could probably go a long way with that class.
 
Ranch Hand
Posts: 101
  • Mark post as helpful
  • send pies
    Number of slices to send:
    Optional 'thank-you' note:
  • Quote
  • Report post to moderator


I was thinking that I could have two keys in a properties file:
1) returned=Returned results for
2) returned.part.two=in:
The problem is that I know that word order can vary in different languages...


The only way to avoid this kind of problem is to not separate in two tokens the sentence. Instead you should use a message with argument(s):

returned=Returned results for {0} in:

Then it would be easy to change the word order in another locale.
You should read the documentation of java.text.MessageFormat class.

Regards
 
You get good luck from rubbing the belly of a tiny ad:
a bit of art, as a gift, that will fit in a stocking
https://gardener-gift.com
reply
    Bookmark Topic Watch Topic
  • New Topic