I should have looked this up... l7dlog() methods replace the user-supplied key by its localized version from the resource bundle.
So this is about the log message text, not the level names. Please disregard my previous email. One of my colleagues raised an interesting point: We have some systems where the log files are tailed and monitored, and alerts are raised for certain keywords. For those systems it is important that the format doesn't change when upgrading. That may actually be a good argument in favor of supporting localization in log4j 2.0... On Friday, January 31, 2014, Remko Popma <[email protected]> wrote: > I asked a number of Japanese and Chinese colleagues, but nobody seemed to > want the level names translated in the log output. They were all happy > with the English names. About half advised against translating, half was > indifferent, and one person said he wouldn't use it himself but he thought > that other people might want it. > > So maybe this is a "nice-to-have" rather than a "must-have" feature? > > On Friday, January 31, 2014, Remko Popma > <[email protected]<javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','[email protected]');>> > wrote: > >> What does the localization do? >> Is it for translating the built-in level names? >> >> >> On Friday, January 31, 2014, Gary Gregory <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> In Log4j 1 we use: >>> >>> - org.apache.log4j.Category.setResourceBundle(ResourceBundle) >>> - org.apache.log4j.Category.l7dlog(Priority, String, Object[], Throwable) >>> >>> It seems v2 makes sidesteps the whole localization/i18n issue. >>> >>> What's the migration path for that? >>> >>> So we'll never play nice with some projects that require playing with >>> resource bundles. >>> >>> Should we recommend creating a Logger wrapper to hold a resource bundle? >>> I'm not sure what else we can do... we could provide it... >>> >>> Thoughts? >>> >>> Gary >>> -- >>> E-Mail: [email protected] | [email protected] >>> Java Persistence with Hibernate, Second >>> Edition<http://www.manning.com/bauer3/> >>> JUnit in Action, Second Edition <http://www.manning.com/tahchiev/> >>> Spring Batch in Action <http://www.manning.com/templier/> >>> Blog: http://garygregory.wordpress.com >>> Home: http://garygregory.com/ >>> Tweet! http://twitter.com/GaryGregory >>> >>
