Source of Pre-Built Frameworks Locales?

Question

Hi All,
Where do I get pre-built locale frameworks files. I have Flex Builder and in the SDK folders is the en_US and ja_JP.
I can switch between English and Japanese and all works fine, the dates are all in the correct language, validation all shows in correct language.
But I need a bunch of other languages so I create the es_ES with bin/copylocale en_US es_ES
All this does is copy the English frameworks to a new folder. What I want is all the controls like the dates and validation to be in Spanish, like they are in Japanese when I use that local.
I'm dealing with my own local language modification like labels etc. I'm looking for the flex built in controls language files.
Any help this is holding up deployment.
TIA
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Answer 1

First off, many thanks to cheftimo for pointing out that the free flex 4 sdk contains 16 languages.
I needed out of the box default locale strings for all the built in controls like dates and form validation for flex 3.
I did this with sdk 3.4.0 on the Mac, but should work in 3.5.0
Flex 3 ships with en_US and ja_JP I will make a es_ES in this example but this will work for any the 16 locales you need.
1) Download the free flex 4 sdk and unzip
Located inside this zip are the locale properties /frameworks/projects/frameworks/bundles/{locale} in our example es_ES
2) Make a copy of the en_US in Flex 3
cd /Applications/Adobe\ Flex\ Builder\ 3/sdks/3.4.0
bin/copylocale en_US es_ES
This creates a copy of the en_US in /Applications/Adobe Flex Builder 3/sdks/3.4.0/frameworks/locale/ as es_ES
Everything is set up for you except that it as not translated the strings.
3) unzip the framework file
cd /Applications/Adobe Flex Builder 3/sdks/3.4.0/frameworks/locale/es_ES
unzip framework_rb.swc
This extract in the es_ES folder
catalog.xml
library.swf
locale (folder)
4) rename for back up, the  original framework file (not needed anymore)
mv  framework_rb.swc framework_rb.bu
5) copy in the porperties files from flex 4 sdk to the locale/es_ES folder you just extracted
you can do the next step in the command line or finder (finder is easier)
Open the flex 4 sdk properties folder
open /frameworks/projects/frameworks/bundles/es_ES
copy the 13 property files to the just unzipped folder locale/es_ES
6) re-zip the files
zip framework_rb.swc locale library.swf catalog.xml
This will result in a new framework_rb.swc you can now delete the 2 extracted files and 1 extracted folder: (locale library.swf catalog.xml)
Thats it you now have a flex 3 locale file just repeat the steps for the other ones you need
Note you could just copy the framework.swc from the flex 4 sdk but I'm paranoid and was not sure what might have changed in say the catalog.xml for example.
I hope this helps others
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