Java internationalization with the Properties Pre-Processor

submited by krishnas on Tue Aug 14th, 2007

Properties files are used to store and maintain the localized strings at the heart of most internationalized Java applications. It's too bad maintaining several properties files can be such a headache. In this article Melih Çetin introduces the Properties Pre-Processor, an XML-based utility that enables UTF-8 encoding and lets you maintain localized strings for all of your supported locales in a single XML file, as well as easily sharing them across multiple applications.

Topic: java