<i18n dev> The procedure to get the list of supported languages/locales extended

[USHAKOV, Sergey]

Hi Nishit, and great to see someone responding:)

To be frank, I only meant adding just translations. But Currency, 
Calendar and Collator do not seem to be a big deal either.

My personal interest is in getting Russian language officially supported :)

There is a project at GitHub that contains quite a number of various 
string translations to Russian: https://github.com/darkbarker/java-i18n 
. I have forked it recently and plan to get it updated, including 
reference to the applicable license :)

And if there is a possibility to get support of Russian language 
incorporated into OpenJDK / Oracle JDK, I would be glad to follow your 
instructions and do a little bit more to get the job done, 
Currency/Calendar/Collator/etc included...

Does that answer your question?

Regards,
Sergey Ushakov



On 14.04.2016 14:02, Nishit Jain wrote:
> Hi Sergey,
>
> Thanks for asking the question. We were discussing it withing our team 
> and need a little more clarification on that.
> Can you please throw some light on what do you mean by adding a 
> resource bundle to OpenJDK? Do you mean to add a new Locale in itself 
> (which covers set of locale sensitive classes e.g. Currency, Calendar, 
> Collator etc.) to OpenJDK or just a set of translations for a 
> language? An example on that would be very helpful.
>
> Regards,
> Nishit Jain

> On 4/9/2016 9:30 AM, USHAKOV, Sergey wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Oracle JDK and OpenJDK offer internationalized resources for quite a 
>> number of languages, but there are more languages out there.
>>
>> There is no big deal for an enthusiastic bilingual programmer in 
>> translating JDK resource bundles into any other language.
>>
>> Then the question comes how this new bundle might be incorporated 
>> into OpenJDK.
>>
>> The main i18n page here ( http://openjdk.java.net/groups/i18n/ ) does 
>> contain instructions for making a custom OpenJDK build with extra 
>> locale support, but this procedure yields just a single build, only 
>> known to its author, and with no long-time support...
>>
>> Is there a procedure for OpenJDK to get the list of supported 
>> languages extended, and corresponding resource bundles incorporated 
>> into the main repository?
>>
>> Any ideas and/or references are most welcome...
>>
>> Thanks and best regards,
>> Sergey Ushakov