Rendering reports in multiple locales and localized properties

djatnieks

I am having a problem when trying to render a report in multiple locale's. What I am doing is like this (Java psuedocode):

// Run the report
runtask = engine.createRunTask(...);
runtask.run (myReportDoc);

reportDoc = engine.openReportDocument(myReportDoc);
rendertask = engine.createRenderTask(reportDoc);

for each locale {

rendertask.setLocale( locale );
rendertask.render();
}

For each locale I have a localized properties file. e.g

myReport_en.properties
myReport_fr.properties
...

The problem I am having is that once the first locale is set and Birt selects the appropriate properties file - myReport_fr.properties for example - then subsequent setLocale() calls seem to change _only_ the locale settings and _not_ the properties file. E.g. All my reports are rendered using the French properties file, but date/number formatting are correctly using each locale.

So with "en" and "fr" as my locale's and if French is the first locale, both my reports are rendered in French, but the French version has French date/number formatting and my English report is also in French with U.S. date/number formatting.

How can I fix this? Is this a bug?

mwilliams

Hi djatnieks,

What version of BIRT are you using?