> if you've ever made an existing app i18n, you know > how dreary a job creating rb is
Nope, this is my first true i18n venture and I was actually planning to look you up again soon :-) But I do know what you mean about dreary. I am actually converting the format of existing files now ...which is no less dreary than creating them from scratch... believe me > yup. makes them highly portable Perfect! ..:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:. Bobby Hartsfield http://acoderslife.com http://cf4em.com -----Original Message----- From: Paul Hastings [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, August 01, 2008 7:48 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: Resource Bundle editors [bayes SPAMTRAP] [bayes SPAMTRAP] Bobby Hartsfield wrote: >>From what I've seen with the Eclipse plugin, you can type/paste/view the > characters on the editor side just fine but when you view the files, they > are all escaped. You can change the prefs to either convert or not convert > as well. the last version i looked at had the option (maybe was default) to save as utf-8 encoded files. if i recall correctly, somebody blew up a set of rb i had built (using rbManager) with it. if you've ever made an existing app i18n, you know how dreary a job creating rb is, so anything that even has the chance of breaking that just plain sucks in my opinion. > view the contents of the files, it is \u00F1 > > Is that what you mean when you say that Java expects them to be escaped? yup. makes them highly portable (or it's just how it was done once & now it's too late to change ;-). btw i forgot to mention that rbManager has fairly extensive management functionality for trackng what's been translated, by whom, when, etc. as well as a reporting tool which helps on large/complex projects. and i just looked at attesoro's site & most of his complaints against rbManager involves importing other rb into it (because of the "fairly extensive management functionality"). ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;203748912;27390454;j Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:310075 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
