Re: Localization

[log4cxx <lo...@gallandfamily.com>]

Hi,

I'm writing to see if anyone has information regarding using localization with log4cxx. I've been working with the 0.9.8 code base from 09/27, where at least some of the l10n code is #if 0'ed out.

My questions are:
1) Is l10n work in progress? stalled? finished?
2) Is there a guide to using it? I've only worked with log4j a little, so I don't have experience with l10n that I can transfer over. Specifically,
  3) where can I get locale information programmatically?
  4) Can the current locale be set per thread?
  5) What are the 'best practices' in terms of performance (smaller keys?) vs. fall back behavior (english keys that make sense to the user if the resource bundle can't be found)?

Lastly, it seems that this list has been very quiet as of late. Is 0.9.8 work still progressing?

Thanks for any and all information!
Sincerely,
Andy

On 6/3/05, maryline royer <ma...@alcatel.fr> wrote:

    Hello,

    I used to do localization with log4cxx-0.9.7.

    I have reintroduced this feature in the cvs version of mai 2005. I have
    tested my work. I send you the modified files :  just look if you are
    interested by my proposal ...

    Best regards.

Re: Localization

[Curt Arnold <ca...@apache.org>]

log4cxx wrote:

>Hi,
>
>I'm writing to see if anyone has information regarding using localization with log4cxx. I've been working with the 0.9.8 code base from 09/27, where at least some of the l10n code is #if 0'ed out.
>
>My questions are:
>1) Is l10n work in progress? stalled? finished?
>  
>
The migration to Unicode and APR broke the existing resource bundle 
code.  It is on the checklist for the next release but no one is 
currently working on it at the moment as far as I am aware.

>2) Is there a guide to using it? I've only worked with log4j a little, so I don't have experience with l10n that I can transfer over. Specifically,
>  3) where can I get locale information programmatically?
>  4) Can the current locale be set per thread?
>  5) What are the 'best practices' in terms of performance (smaller keys?) vs. fall back behavior (english keys that make sense to the user if the resource bundle can't be found)?
>  
>

I don't think that resource bundles are the most effective way to 
accomplish localization of diagnostic messages.  There have been some 
fairly long discussions on this in the jakarta commons mailing list, but 
I can find an archive for it at the moment.  Basically, I like regular 
expression post processing for a number of reasons as a more effective 
mechanism.  Will try to find a link when I return from ApacheCON.

>Lastly, it seems that this list has been very quiet as of late. Is 0.9.8 work still progressing?
>  
>

We've recently added another committer.  At the moment, I personally am 
working more on log4j since there are things that need to be fixed there 
to port over to log4cxx, but definitely want to get back to log4cxx.  
Hopefully will see some progress over the holidays.