[FLEX-19024] Provide ability to build applications in languages that the SDK is not localized into. (World Readiness: Overall Localizability)

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Later
• Affects Version/s: Adobe Flex SDK Previous
• Component/s: i18n : Compiler
• Environment: Language Found: English
• Assignee: Adobe JIRA
• Reporter: Adobe JIRA
• Created: 30/Apr/09 15:25
• Updated: 15/Apr/11 15:07
• Resolved: 12/Jan/10 21:52

Description

The Flex SDK packaged with the "Gumbo" pre-release of Flex Builder includes sixteen regional versions of its localisable resources: da_DK, de_DE, en_US, es_ES, fi_FI, fr_FR, it_IT, ja_JP, ko_KR, nb_NO, nl_NL, pt_BR, sv_SE, zh_CN, zh_TW. That is a major improvement over version 3!

However, specifying a locale (in the compiler's options) that is not in that list (for example, el_GR) still produces a compilation error, in the form:

"unable to open 'C:\Program Files\Adobe\Flex Builder 4\sdks\4.0.0\frameworks\locale\el_GR'".

The solution is now simple: create the folder mentioned in the error message. The folder may remain empty (this, I believe, is a definite improvement over Flex Builder 3), as long as a supported locale (such as en_US) is also compiled into the application as a fallback.

But then, why does the folder for the missing locale ("el_GR" in our example) need to exist at all, causing a rather useless compilation error? Ideally, the existence of the folder would not be required.