[jira] Created: (CLK-749) Next Generation Internationalization (i18n) / Localization

["Andrew Fink (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

Next Generation Internationalization (i18n) / Localization
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                 Key: CLK-749
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CLK-749
             Project: Click
          Issue Type: Improvement
          Components: core
            Reporter: Andrew Fink


Currently Click uses standard  Java Resource Bundles for i18n.
Bundles have three well-known problems:
- they must be native2ascii encoded (ugly \uCafe, only ISO 8859-1 character encoding) - periodically we see letters about it in Mailing list
- keys are strings, so misspelling is usual error
- bundle look-up procedure is tricky

May I suggest one way to make i18n better.

Ceki Gülcü (famous log4j, slf4j, logback author) has made very interesting library for 'Compiler Assisted Localization':

http://cal10n.qos.ch/
http://cal10n.qos.ch/manual.html

We can switch to CAL10N and have many bonuses.


PS: May I ask also to throw all custom / self-made logging facade / level filtering code and use http://slf4j.org/ directly.
Slf4j is de-facto standard from logging-in-java father.

Many apache projects (look at http://slf4j.org/ start page)  use slf4j.
slf4j is standard / allowed / small dependency for many organizations.

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