On 28/01/2020 21:52, Christopher Schultz wrote:
> Michael,
> 
> On 1/28/20 4:08 PM, Michael Osipov wrote:
>> Folks,
> 
>> I recently worked on some localization issues and noticed that, in
>> my opinion, these JARs are incorrectly named:
> 
>>> tomcat-i18n-cs.jar tomcat-i18n-de.jar tomcat-i18n-es.jar 
>>> tomcat-i18n-fr.jar tomcat-i18n-ja.jar tomcat-i18n-ko.jar 
>>> tomcat-i18n-pt-BR.jar tomcat-i18n-ru.jar tomcat-i18n-zh-CN.jar
> 
>> Most people confuse I18N with L10N -- but they are distinct.
>> According to Mozilla [1] Tomcat is internationalized and provides
>> localization with those bundles. As far as I understand that, they
>> should be
> 
>> either tomcat-l10n-<locale>.jar or tomcat-nls-<locale>.jar
> 
>> NLS (native language support), for those who are familiar with 
>> LC_MESSAGES and gettext/libintl or similar.
> 
>> I don't know wether this can be backported to 8.5 or 9.0 due to
>> file renames, but should be an issue with 10.
> 
>> [1]
>> https://blog.mozilla.org/l10n/2011/12/14/i18n-vs-l10n-whats-the-diff/
> 
>>  Comments?
> 
> +0
> 
> This is mostly a matter of style, but you are correct, i18n is inaccurat
> e.

It does mean changing the Maven co-ordinates. While I agree the current
naming is wrong, is it wrong enough to break things for upgrading users?

Mark

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