Peter Donald wrote:
> At 06:22 AM 6/21/2002 +0200, you wrote:
>
>> The metainfo ComponentDescript class contains the name, classname,
>> implementation version and attributes of a component together with a
>> display name. I think we need to consider internationalization
>> requirements for both the displayname element and attribute values.
>
>
> Yep - I forgot about displayname. I planned to add in description as
> an attribute so that it could be i18n'ed. The attribute was then going
> to be keyed in usual fashion. ie Look for attribute
> "description-en_au", then "description-en" and finally "description".
> However I think I prefer your approach where the attribute value is
> key into normal i18n files.
>
> Maybe we should make display name an attribute aswell?
I think that's a good idea.
.... and the first formal reserved Avalon attribute key name would be ?
>
>> One approach I could impagine is a reserved leading character in a
>> displayname or attribute value that is used to distinguish between a
>> i18n resource key and plain text. For example if the value starts
>> with #, then an implementation can attempt to resolve the string via
>> the component's package i18n resource.
>
>
> As long as that interpretation is restricted to specific "well known"
> attributes or is considered container specific then I would be fine
> with that.
Umm, don't like limiting this to well-know attributes. For example, I
would want to include a description of the component as an i18n resource
value and I wouldn't like to be restricted on what keys I could use.
The alternative is to include a flag in an attribute defintion to
indicate that the value is an i18n key. The default being FALSE.
Steve.
>
>
> Cheers,
>
> Peter Donald
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