Fixed line width in JAVA properties filter should be configurable.

[ducharmg]

The line width is fixed at 80. This is arbitrary and should be configurable.
Java Resource bundles have no such limitation.

private static final int COLMAX = 80;

[ducharmg]

another issue is the use of INDENT
private static final String INDENT = " ";

it adds extra spaces to the messages.

[srl295]

What is the rationale for changing the line width? The files should be machine-parsed and not hand edited.

I think if anything, there could be no line width and no continuation characters used.

[ducharmg]

I agree that neither line width or indent characters should be used.
But if we make them configurable, we can remove the continuation but still allow backwards compatibility with existing code.

I would suggest that line width = 0 be interpreted as no line length limit imposed and then the issue of the INDENT characters will be made moot.