I am currently working on internationalization in swing application.
How to Use Tamil in Java internationalization.
Whether I have to install any tamil font and add font.properties.ta file in jdk.
How to convert english to tamil unicode ?.
Where I have to download all those things?
I would appreciate if any of u know some useful links regarding this
Thanks
>>How to convert english to tamil unicode ?.
You do not "convert" English to Tamil, you translate - or rather, you hire a translator to perform the language translation. And you need to provide the translatable text in separate resource bundles (either ListResourceBundles or PropertyResourceBundles).
The Java internationalization page is a good starting point if you have no idea what you should be doing to support more than one language: http://java.sun.com/javase/technologies/core/basic/intl/
Thanks for ur quick reply.
Hi I already worked on English to Chinese conversion. In this i convert english to chinese simplified text and then convert chinese simplified text to unicode. This unicode is placed in property file which is a input of our java file.
Shall i follow the same process?
Please give a sample of property file which contains text "Welcome" in English to convert into Tamil.
Please provide a solution..
Thanks
If you have already implemented a Chinese translation, what is it about a adding a new language that you don't understand?
Why would the process be different for any specific language?
I suggest again that you go do some research and reading about localization/internationalization of Java applications.
Hi I am having unicode for tamil characters.(0B99 for O in Tamil)
The same can be read from property file.
But my swing application dosenot display tamil characters. It display box like character
Whether I have to change in Regional Options ? or any specifc font to be included?
Please provide a solution
Thanks
OK, so you have a specific problem - that's much easier to address than just "give me a solution".
It sounds as if you have a font problem (getting 'boxes' instead of the real characters is almost always a font issue). And it sounds as if you can see Tamil characters on your system outside of your Java application, which seems to indicate a specific problem with Java not picking up the correct font.
Take a look at the FAQs concerning text rendering and fonts here:
http://java.sun.com/javase/technologies/core/basic/intl/faq.jsp
hai one_dane
Thanks for giving useful informations.
I gone through the link which given by u.
I have some doubt regard this..Is there anyway to display Tamil text in swing application without giving textbox.setFont("Amutham"). Bcoz as i mentioned in the previous posts, i want to do internationalization in Java language. My GUI will display menu in Tamil language.
But now my GUI display only box like characters.
U mentioned that there is a font problem. So I searched the topic "Enabled Writing Systems for Java Foundation Classes". It gives list of languages which support,in this I didnt found tamil language. My jdk version is 1.5. Which version of java supports tamil language?
How can I do internationationalization in Java for displaying in text in Tamil characters?
Please give a solution.
Any help regard this is highly appreciated
Thanks
Yes, I understand you want to use Java - this is a Java forum.
I agree that the Sun web site you quote would appear to give the impression that you cannot use Tamil in a Swing application, but I don't believe that is the case. I just implemented a small Swing app where I display Tamil text, and the only thing I needed to do to get that to work was to copy a font that supports Tamil to the jre fonts/fallback directory - as explained here:
http://weblogs.java.net/blog/joconner/archive/2006/09/internationaliz.html
I get Tamil characters to display, and they look correct to me (note: I have not hardcoded any font information, I simply let the code pick an appropriate font).
I had same problem and created the folder and put the font as instructed on the link. Now Its working. But the problem is that I had 3 version of 3 java installations. when a new java update released
and if I try to update it, Java installed as new installation. Who to avoid it? So I don't have to create the folder and copy & paste the font everytime java release update.
Thanks in advance for your time