[Yanel-dev] i18n catalogues

[simon litwan]

> 
> Currently we're using simple property files as message catalogues.
> I think this is bad and we should use xml files instead.
> 
> One major disadvantage of text property files is that the encoding is 
> unknown, which is bad especially in the case of i18n files because 
> foreign languages may want to use a special encoding.
> 
> Actually java 6 supports xml files as resource bundles, but i guess we 
> cannot require java 6.
> So we have to find a different solution. Maybe commons-configuration? It 
>  supports plain-text properties as well as xml properties, so maybe we 
> could make it backwards-compatible.
> 
i would welcome it to use xml files.

another idea/question. why don't we put the catalogues in the content 
repository? this way they would also be editable through the web.

WDOT?

simon

> WDYT?
> 
> josias
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