<i18n dev> RFR [9] 8043613: Update .properties files for serialver tool

Michael Fang michael.fang at oracle.com
Fri Jun 6 16:32:59 UTC 2014


Another thing is this is an ASCII file, so it's less risky for dev team 
to touch it.

In the past there has been several times that .rc files got corrupted by 
dev team trying to edit the file in English environment or merging the 
files. So, we are more careful about non-ASCII files.

thanks,

-michael

On 14年06月04日 08:30 上午, Michael Fang wrote:
> Hi Alan,
>
> Yes, typically, we request dev team not to update l10n files 
> (especially .rc files that are difficult to merge). But it's fine for 
> me in this case for jdk9 since we are not planning to update the l10n 
> resource files until after feature complete.
>
> thanks,
>
> -michael
>
> On 14年06月04日 05:45 上午, Alan Bateman wrote:
>> On 04/06/2014 13:44, Chris Hegarty wrote:
>>> Michael,
>>>
>>> This is a very trivial request, and follows JDK-8042887 "Remove 
>>> serialver -show, this tool does not need a GUI".
>>>
>>> The only changes required are the removal of several values from the 
>>> two localized property files. No additional translation is required.
>> Won't this resolve this when the when translation drop happens? 
>> Normally we are not supposed to touch the translated properties 
>> files. The changes to these files were deliberately left out of 
>> Pavel's patch.
>>
>> -Alan.


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