13.4. Determining the locale for static-string internationalization
All the talk of constants and messages per locale is great, but without knowing what locale the user is requesting, you’re not going to see a difference.
Locale determination is performed during the bootstrapping of the GWT application in the browser. Once the locale is determined, the appropriate locale-specific implementation is downloaded. The determination is performed by something called a property provider, which is a segment of JavaScript code defined either directly in a GWT module or by a property-provider generator referenced in a GWT module. For static i18n, it’s the latter, defined in the I18N module that you inherit to use i18n.
Older versions of GWT had a fixed ...
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