Re: support for Java property format?

[Asgeir Frimannsson]

Hi John,

On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 4:10 AM, John Dennis <jdennis(a)redhat.com&gt; wrote:

>  I'm working on a project with Java files which need translation
> support.
>  Java does not use Gettext .po files, rather they use property files.
>
>  Looking at the Transifex documentation it appears as though Transifex
>  does not yet support Java property files (but it's on the wish list). Is
>  that true? Any idea when support for Java property files might show up?
>
>  If transifex does not support Java then what is the preferred mechanism
>  to get translation support for Java? I didn't see any discussion of Java
>  on the Fedora L10n wiki page(s).
>  
The *quickest* way to get this working for translate.fedoraproject.org is
probably to convert your properties files to PO for translation using e.g.
Translate Toolkit [1], and letting Transifex handle these.

cheers,
asgeir

[1] http://translate.sourceforge.net/wiki/toolkit/prop2po