Should I use java.text.MessageFormat for localised messages without placeholders?

Question

We are localising the user-interface text for a web application that runs on Java 5, and have a dilemma about how we output messages that are defined in properties files - the k

Answer 1

In the end we decided to side-step the single quote problem by always using ‘curly’ quotes:

warning.item = This item\u2019s {0} is not valid.