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Bug 71153

Summary: Internationalization from the ground up
Product: guibuilder Reporter: _ tboudreau <tboudreau>
Component: CodeAssignee: issues@guibuilder <issues>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED    
Severity: blocker    
Priority: P3    
Version: 5.x   
Hardware: All   
OS: All   
Issue Type: ENHANCEMENT Exception Reporter:
Bug Depends on:    
Bug Blocks: 32121    

Description _ tboudreau 2006-01-09 03:42:26 UTC 
If I use the I18N module to internationalize a form, or internationalize my 
text w/ the property editor, still new strings I edit inline in the form 
editor will be hardcoded.  If the rest of the UI is internationalized, new 
strings should automatically be also.

(of course this is not so easy with the I18N module separate...)

And if we're going to go that far, why not forget about ever hard-coding 
strings, and just always generate a properties file by default and never 
hardcode strings at all?  Or at least make doing that the default.

Not an easy problem, but the ease of use of the current internationalization 
support is terrible.  Transparent internationalization would have the greatest 
ease of use.
Comment 1 Tomas Pavek 2006-01-09 09:56:33 UTC 
*** Issue 32126 has been marked as a duplicate of this issue. ***
Comment 2 Jan Stola 2006-06-02 12:58:20 UTC 
The support for automatic I18N has been already implemented.
Select the root node of the Inspector and see the I18N section
in the property sheet.