Re: AXIS System Integration Guide - with internationalization

[Richard Sitze <rs...@us.ibm.com>]

I would propose keys of the form "AXIS[0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9]", ie
AXIS00001 ...

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                    Dirk-Willem                                                                     
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On Wed, 31 Oct 2001, Russell Butek wrote:

> I haven't heard a thing from folks about the internationalization
proposal
> in the document.  Can I take silence as consent?  If so, I will commit
this
> document on Friday and start implementing internationalization in AXIS.

Your internationalization approach is fine. You want to be really carefull
about the keys. Always add - never change.

If you are worried about people not using it; you could allow for some
wrapper:

           someWrapper("keyName","Could not find the begin tag")

but IMHO in an open source project it is easy enough to make sure there is
a community standard which says that

           - you must assign a key ( A-Za-z0-9 )
           - you must add at least a key to en/en or en/us mapping.
           - you should not reuse a key

and then help people with it as commits come in. It is a bit of a havit to
get into. I'd be more worried if you had proposed to allow things like
a 'key' which could double as the english text; i.e keys like
           "Could_not_find_the_begin_tag"
and then rely on s/_/ /g substitions :-)

You could advice people to start numbering them keys right from the
start; i.e keys should be

           /^[A-Za-z0-0]{1,}[0-9]+$/

and/or use some clever perl script to detect 'naughty'ness.

Dw