Translating UI Strings 

The S2X Editor has two purposes. Firstly, to have your strings translated in the standard system, they need to be stored in the appropriate format. At SAP, this is the XML Localization Interchange File Format (XLIFF) format (extension.xlf), which the editor generates automatically. Secondly, the editor allows you to change the attributes of your strings, which improves the quality of the foreign-language version of your application.

Prerequisites

You have created a Java application and externalized its strings in a separate properties file.

Procedure

       1.      In the Navigator view, select the .properties file that the system has generated. Choose I18N Tools → Run S2Xtool from the context menu. The system automatically generates an .xlf file from the.properties file and opens it in the S2X Tool.

       2.      Check the default entries in the Header tab. Enter the source language, your user name, and a default maximum length for all texts if needed. Hint: It is often better to specify an appropriate length for each text individually.

       3.      On the Resource Text tab, check the values assigned to each string. Texts that don’t have to be translated can be deleted in the editor tool.