Supported Resource Bundles

What resource bundle types are supported by LRM?

Currently Version 2.1 of the Resource Manager supports the following file types:

• .json (with some restrictions for L10n purposes - See Release Notes 2.1 - Mostly JavaScript, and other programming languages)
• .msg (C, C++, ...)
• .po files
• .properties files (for instance, Java-type resources)
• .resx files (used in the .Net world)
• .rc (Delphi, ...)
• .rjs (for JavaScript)
• .rxml (for xml)
• .strings (Mobile iOS)
• strings.xml (Android)

How to setup LRM for .properties

The encoding of a .properties file is ISO-8859-1, also known as Latin-1. All non-Latin-1 characters must be entered by using Unicode escape characters, e. g. \uHHHH where HHHH is a hexadecimal index of the character in the Unicode character set. This allows for using .properties files as resource bundles for localization. A non-Latin-1 text file can be converted to a correct .properties file by using the native2ascii tool that is shipped with the JDK or by using a tool, such as po2prop, that manages the transformation from a bilingual localization format into .properties escaping. For more information, please refer to : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.properties

Resource Manager Configuration

Typical .xml definition for projects with .properties files.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="no"?>
<lrmconf>
  <model-version>2.0.12</model-version>
  <project-name>com.company.project</project-name>
  <project-desc>This is a sample LRM Project definition file, configured to support Java properties files</project-desc>
  <!--group-name contains either the company name or the group name-->
  <group-name>SVNFTP</group-name>
  <top-level-dir>/var/lib/jenkins/jobs/SVNFTP.com.company.project/workspace</top-level-dir>
  <detect-errors>
    <!--If set to '0' (false), then the 'missed translation' error will not be triggered-->
    <missed-trans-error>0</missed-trans-error>
    <parameter-mismatch-error>1</parameter-mismatch-error>
  </detect-errors>
  <pseudo-locale>eo</pseudo-locale>
  <target-locales>
    <locale>fr</locale>
    <locale>de_DE</locale>
    <locale>slv</locale>
    <locale>nob_NO_UNI</locale>
    <locale>zh_Hant</locale>
    <locale>ZHT_Hans</locale>
  </target-locales>
    <resource-extension>
      <extension>properties</extension>
      <file-name-pattern>*_l_c_v</file-name-pattern>
      <!--If the base resource files use the file-name-pattern in their name -->
      <!--then set use-pattern-on-dflt-locale to 1, if not then set to 0-->
      <use-pattern-on-dflt-locale>1</use-pattern-on-dflt-locale>
      <file-location-pattern/>
      <use-location-pattern-on-dflt-locale>0</use-location-pattern-on-dflt-locale>
      <base-file-encoding>UTF-8</base-file-encoding>
      <localized-file-encoding>UTF-8</localized-file-encoding>
      <!--Default pattern for properties is '![CDATA[\{\d+\}|%[ds]]]'-->
      <parameter-regex-pattern><![CDATA[\{\w+\}|%[ds]]]></parameter-regex-pattern>
    </resource-extension>
  </resource-extensions>
</lrmconf>

What is resx files encoding?

.Net resx files must be UTF-8 encoded, as per the resx schema, Hence, on-boarding resx resource bundles with LRM must specify the UTF-8 encoding:

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ekyft91f%28v=VS.90%29.aspx

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<root>
    <xsd:schema id="root" xmlns="" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" 
xmlns:msdata="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:xml-msdata">
<xsd:element name="data">
     <xsd:complexType>
           <xsd:sequence>
                <xsd:element name="value" type="xsd:string" minOccurs="0"
                    msdata:Ordinal="2" />
            </xsd:sequence>
                <xsd:attribute name="name" type="xsd:string" />
                <xsd:attribute name="type" type="xsd:string" />
                <xsd:attribute name="mimetype" type="xsd:string" />
      </xsd:complexType>
</xsd:element>

Why don't Bad iOS Comments Trigger Errors?

If an IOS file has a comment that is not ended properly, no error is thrown. For example, if a comment doesn't have an ending */, such as /*Bad comment no errors are found.

This is due to the formatting of iOS. This type of bad comments would typically be created on the base files.

Note key/value pairs are not effected. Noticed when LRM_RESEND tag was added, the info in the Changed Key values included LRM_RESEND.