RFR: 8288882: JFileChooser - empty (0 bytes) file is displayed as 1 KB [v4]

[Naoto Sato]

On Wed, 13 Jul 2022 15:23:28 GMT, Andy Goryachev <duke at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> ok, should I revert back "B" to "bytes" in basic.properties and commit?
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> I would like to emphasize that this issue is complicated.  Plural rules vary from language to language, adding plural strings to resource bundles adds costs in terms of translation and testing.  
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> If we were to support proper plurals, one may use ChoiceFormat, though it seems to fail for Polish, see
> https://stuartgunter.wordpress.com/2011/08/09/java-i18n-pluralisation-using-choiceformat/
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> Another solution is to pull in ICU4J library, see
> https://stuartgunter.wordpress.com/2011/08/14/even-better-java-i18n-pluralisation-using-icu4j/
> 
> Yet another solution is to drop the words altogether and simply show a number (of bytes in this case).  Alternatively, use a common suffix such as "B", but this may not look standard.

True plurals (as in LDML) is not yet fully supported in the JDK. (`CompactNumberFormat` does for its own purpose (https://bugs.openjdk.org/browse/JDK-8222756), but not for general use) For this case, I think `ChoiceFormat` is the mid-ground solution, as Swing is only localized in a handful of languages.

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PR: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/9327