Hello, Paul.
Sorry for the delayed answer.
The problem is that we are relying on Cocoa to create these menu items.
However, to properly understand the locale Cocoa needs a special key in the
Info.plist file (CFBundleAllowMixedLocalizations). However when you are running
a java application as java -jar … there’s no Info.plist file, so Cocoa does not
use the locale preferences and displays everything in English. We have the same
problem with a native FileDialog.
The problem does not seem to be fixable internally in JDK, because there’s no
API to tell Cocoa that we wish to use CFBundleAllowMixedLocalizations key. The
only possible workaround right now is to use the javafxpackager tool and create
a native bundle with your application. Bundled apps have an Info.plist and
Cocoa localization works well with them.
For more info please look at the following JDK bug:
https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8019464 It’s about the FileDialog, but
everything there applies to the default menu items as well.
With best regards. Petr.
12 дек. 2013 г., в 8:14 после полудня, Paul Taylor paul_t...@fastmail.fm
написал(а):
Using the Apple menu (Apple.laf.useScreenMenuBar) the special menu items are
always in English whatever set as Preferred Language
OSX:System Preferences:Language and Region:Preferred Languages
i.e it stills say
Preferences...
Show All
Hide Others
etc
in the first menu (my own menu items using my own resource bundle are fine)
instead of:
Préférences
Tout afficher
Masquer les autres
even if change preferred language from English to French and reboot
This works properly using Java 6
Is this a known bug, is quite problematic because it makes Java applications
look rather amateurish in non-english env.
Paul
