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Comment: .xml vs properties files

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  • Obviously, we need to investigate ways to bring more of that text either into translatable metadata fields (like Item metadata) in the DB, or migrate them to *.properties files (perhaps similar to how "item-submission.xml" file can references keys in messages files for <heading> text). This may need to be something we slowly improve over several releases. (Tim Donohue)
  • Storing and transporting strings in .xml files rather than *.properties files hugely reduces the changes that tools incorrectly guess the character encoding.

What are other open source platforms using for i18n?

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