How to provide for Multi-Language support

[ankursaxena]

Hi i have a tool which is based on servlets which is currently in english, now that our product is moving to different parts of the world, I need to provide for interface with English, French, Spanish, some Indian languages etc. I am currently using WebMacros and Servlets to get my business logic and front end seperated, so how can I in this senario provide support for these languages?

I thought of making an XML file with all the translated words from different languages, each time I process a servlet I would read the XML file read the cookie, figure out which language has been picked and then appropriately pick the data and feed into the Webmacro file I have. Would this work?

What else would you suggest?

Thanks
Ankur

 

[ankursaxena]

Also How do I write XML files with these language encoded chars?

 

[Diancecht]

Maybe this helps:

http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/i18n/

Cheers,

Dian

 

[ankursaxena]

thanks, this is good..

is there any other way of doing this may be using XML?

also do you have any info about webmacros and how do support international languages in that?

 

[Diancecht]

Maybe this helps:

http://www.opentag.com/xmli18nfaq.htm

Cheers,

Dian

 

[ankursaxena]

thanks once again, let me look into that...