Re: [sdd] Language_bundle

[James Falkner <james.falkner@sun.com>]

How about the "language_bundle" attribute identifies a _basename_,
to which locale names are added as suffixes in a well-known strategy. For
example, if you specify "foo" as the basename, and you are running in the
ja_JA locale with utf8 encoding, then runtimes would know to look for

foo_ja_JA.utf8
foo_ja_JA
foo_ja
foo_en
foo

Just like how Sun's Java runtime environment looks up ResourceBundles.

-jhf-

Julia McCarthy wrote:
> Let's try to make some progress before next meeting.
> 
> Issue #8 - Can there be more than one Language bundle for the descriptor?
> 
> Here's the text on this issue copied from Debra's email of 6/6.
> Item #8 Even though the language bundles may be really small for the 
> descriptor, I think that it is worthwhile to simple define a common 
> mechanism for handling multiple language bundles. My experience is that 
> translations take place very asynchronously, and that trying to fuse, 
> merge and manage a single bundle can be error prone.
> 
> This makes sense to me. Does anyone think this is a /bad / idea? Can 
> someone suggest a schema change that would support this? The current 
> schema looks like this:
> 
> <attributeGroup name="DescriptorInfo">
> <attribute name="schemaVersion" type="vsn:VersionString" fixed="1.0" 
> use="required" />
> <attribute name="descriptorID" type="descriptInfo:UUID" use="optional"/>
> <attributeGroup ref="id:BuildInfo"/>
> <attribute name="size" type="integer" use="optional"/>
> <attribute name="language_bundle" type="token" use="optional" 
> default="sddBundle"/>
> </attributeGroup>
> 
> 
> Julia McCarthy
> Tivoli Development
> Deployment Engine Design
> julia@us.ibm.com
> 349/8156
> 877-261-0391
> 
>