SkillMatrixI18nResources_en.properties# Empty, en is default. English strings are served by the default SkillMatrixI18nResources.properties.In Java's ResourceBundle lookup chain, when the locale is en or en_US, the system first looks for SkillMatrixI18nResources_en.properties. Since this file has no key-value pairs, the bundle falls through to the default SkillMatrixI18nResources.properties (which contains English strings).
This empty file exists purely as a locale marker — it prevents the system from skipping directly past English to the default bundle in certain classloader configurations, ensuring consistent bundle resolution.
_en.properties file is always empty with the comment # Empty, en is default., while the base .properties file holds the English strings.7cedb5bc8 Proof-reading I18nResources by Claude Code. 6fd4462f8 I18n*Resources*.properties: Using now UTF8 instead of ISO-8859-1. (File created as part of encoding migration)