[josm-dev] Make josm use .mo files

[David Paleino]

Hello people,
it would be nice if JOSM used .mo files (installed
as /usr/share/locale/<code>/LC_MESSAGES/josm.mo), instead of jar-embedded .lang
files. Please read further.

I can only see advantages with that method (and one "disadvantage", which
really seems to be a missing feature of Java). The pros are that external tools
can handle those files (I think at "localepurge" in Debian, which removes
locales you're not going to use -- thus saving space), and the fact that .mo
files can be packaged separately from "main josm" (so that if you want an
English-only interface, you don't need the locales installed).

The only "con" is that, AFAIK, there is no "easy" method of using them within
Java. Or, probably, I haven't been able to find it. What I've found is:

http://java2s.com/Open-Source/Java-Document-2/Swing/gtkjfilechooser/com/google/code/gtkjfilechooser/GettextResource.java.htm

It doesn't seem too difficult, but it's not straightforward either.

What do you think about this?

Thanks,
David

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