ZK Developer's Reference/Internationalization/Warning and Error Messages

Overview

ZK's system locale dependent messages (such as warnings and errors) are stored in Java properties files (*.properties) and JavaScript files inside a jar. For properties files, they are under a jar file's /metainfo/mesg, such as zcommon.jar, zweb.jar, zk.jar and zul.jar. These files are Locale depedent. For example, the message file in zk.jar for Germany messages is msgzk_de.properties or msgzk_de_DN.properties. For JavaScript files, they are under a jar file's /web/zk/js/lang, e.g. zk.jar/web/js/zk/lang/msgzk_de.js.

Translate messages to another language

If you want to translate messages to another language, you can add your own property files named with the correct Locale, and put it to the /metainfo/mesg directory of the classpath. Of course, it is always better to contribute it back. Please take a look at ZK Messages for all available translations. If you'd like to contribute, just add the language to it and notice us at info at zkoss dot org.

Change particular message

Defined in a Properties File

[since 6.0.0]

If you want to change a particular message, you need to create WEB-INF/zk-label.properties (or WEB-INF/zk-label_[LOCALE].properties) and add key-value pairs in it. For example, assuming you want to customize MZk.NOT_FOUND in German translation (msgzk_de.properties), then you can add the following to WEB-INF/zk-label_de.properties:

MZk.3000=my customized message here

Notice the prefix MZk, and 3000 is the error code and you can find it at ZK_Messages/German/msgzk_de.properties

Defined in a JS File

For messages defined in msgzk.js / msgzul.js you can create a js file and include it via lang-addon.xml. For example for overriding msgzk.LOADING for CEZH language create a file test_cs.js and override particular message msgzk.LOADING=CS langauge specific message" and include this js file via lang-addon.xml as below

<language-addon>
  <addon-name>test</addon-name>
  <language-name>xul/html</language-name>

  <javascript src="/js/test*.js" />
</language-addon>

Note: You can use any prefix other than "test" and add language specific suffix to your js files and include all of them by using * wild card as shown above

Finally include your lang-addon.xml in zk.xml using language-config element as shown below

<language-config>
    <addon-uri>/WEB-INF/lang-addon.xml</addon-uri>
</language-config>

Version History

Version	Date	Content
6.0.0	n/a	Allows applications to override a particular message with zk-label.