Heads up to V3 message translators

[Cantor, Scott]

On 5/18/16, 3:28 AM, "users on behalf of Lukas Hämmerle" <users-bounces at shibboleth.net on behalf of lukas.haemmerle at switch.ch> wrote:


>
>I just got aware of this now, which explains the late response :-)

I figured. There was no immediate rush.

>> Anyway, if you have existing translations split into three files, 
>
>I assume by these three files you mean (for IdPv3.2):
>* messages/authn-messages.properties
>* messages/consent-messages.properties
>* messages/error-messages.properties

Yes.

>Assuming multiple languages are bundles with the next version, there
>would one such (merged) file per language, right?

Yes.

>And I also assume that one has to create additional files to override a
>particular string of a language. Is that assumption correct?

Yes, one file per language if you're overriding something. Might be nice if they supported that by property name instead, but it doesn't work that way AFAIK.

>That would be excellent because it would save deployers quite some work
>(at least for those whose language was already translated by volunteers,
>see [1]).

Right, I was hoping the annoyance of having to recombine the files and maintain the old and new layouts would be offset by us just including whatever is available at the time of each release.

We can provide a deadline once the release schedule is known and we'll pull in whatever is made available at that point.

-- Scott