How to do an app with truly multilingual strings?

Question

what should be the best approach to make strings for different languages? I have this problem, I am trying to display strings such as \'month\', \'months\', \'year\', \'years\'.

Answer 1

Sounds like you want a ChoiceFormat, or at least using one through a MessageFormat:

public static void main(String... args) {
    String[] formats = { 
        // NOTE - In a real app, you'd fetch the format strings from a language,
        // file, not hard-code them in your program. Obviously.
        "{0,number} {0,choice,0#years|1#year|1

In your program, you would of course get the format string from your string file.