RFR: 8016127 - NLS: logging.properties translatability recommendation

[Mandy Chung]

On 9/2/2013 6:29 AM, Daniel Fuchs wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Please find below a fix for:
>
> 8016127: NLS: logging.properties translatability recommendation
>
> <http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~dfuchs/webrev_8016127/webrev.03/>
>

This change looks fine.

As for the cached localized name and the tranisent localizedLevelName 
field which was a regression introduced in 7u13, it'd be worth filing a 
separate bug to track it.   Having one changeset with two bug ids is fine.

thanks
Mandy

> This fix corrects localized Level names in JDK 8.
>
> It updates the logging.properties resource bundles to follow
> internationalization guidelines: all caps words are usually considered
> as constant names that must not be translated - and the base
> resource bundle logging.properties - will no longer contain
> capitalized names.
>
> The changeset contains a test that will verify that
> the logging.properties bundles are correct - which should
> hopefully catch translation issues early int the process and avoid
> last minutes fire-drills like we had in the past.
>
> To make the test pass, I had to replace the untranslated bundles
> from JDK 8 by their translated version from JDK 7u-dev.
> The fix also makes sure that the Level names will still be printed
> in all caps, even if their translation isn't.
>
> As per Mandy's request I also took this opportunity to fix the
> localized name caching mechanism which didn't take into account
> possible changes of the default locale returned by
> Locale.getDefault().
>
> best regards,
>
> -- daniel