[Ocaml-i18n] proposal: message catalogue system

Benjamin Geer ben at socialtools.net
Sat Dec 6 03:52:18 PST 2003


Richard Jones wrote:
 > Conversely, I also worked on a Java project where they had rolled
 > their own translation system using keys into an external XML
 > file. That was a really bad approach, because the application kept
 > crashing every time a translation was missing.

That shows that their system was poorly implemented, but not that it was 
a bad approach.  There's no reason for a key-based system to crash 
because of missing translations.

Ben




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