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Date: Sun, 6 May 2001 10:27:50 -0400 (EDT)
From: bob mcwhirter <bob@werken.com>
To: velocity-user@jakarta.apache.org
Subject: Re: Resource Bundle in Velocity
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> Hello,
> 
> >>>$$bundle.getString("key") 
> 
> >>>to get a string, and put the right bundle into the context for the
> >>>required locale of the client.
> 
> That does work but what actually doesn't work is:
> 
> $MessageFormat.format($bundle.getString("key"), new Object[] {"name"} ) 
> 
> This has to be done since my properties files contain something like
> Welcome {0} or Willkommen {0} based on the locale. 
> 
> Will it be a good idea to add some sort of API to Velocity for doing
> this?

I *know* that this is something I'm going to have to deal 
with at work.  

I'm betting that hopefully we don't have to actually extend
Velocity proper, and do it all with helper objects in the 
context.

If you have implementation ideas, I'd love to hear'em.  Else,
we'll probably also develop an implementation, and at some point,
donate it back to the project.

	-bob