[Zope-PTK] Internationalization

[Alexandre Ratti]

Hi Joachim,


I agree that internationalization is a key issue for Zope.

A discussion list has been created to discuss I18N issues in Zope. It's 
called ZIP (Zope Internationalization Project). To register, go to the 
<http://www.eevolute.com/mailman/listinfo/zip> page. To post, send your 
email to zip@eevolute.com.

Currently this is a very low volume list because only a few people have 
shown interest in these issues. Feel free to register as we need to get 
things rolling again.


Cheers.

Alexandre


At 12:00 26/01/2000 -0800, you wrote:
>From: Joachim Werner <joachim.werner@iuveno.de>
>Organization: Iuveno
>To: Zope-PTK <zope-ptk@zope.org>
>Subject: Re: [Zope-PTK] Internationalization
>Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2000 11:13:39 +0100
>
>I'd like to support Jochen with that.
>
>There should be full Internationalization support in Zope! I know that this is
>not an easy task because it means that EACH AND EVERY user-readable text 
>that as
>of know is just put directly into the DTML has to be replaced by
>variables/hooks.
>
>But without proper internationalization, Zope won't be useful for a lot of use
>scenarios!
>
>In fact, that isn't a PTK issue but a general Zope issue. But the PTK would be
>a good place for a first try ...
>
>There seems to be some work in progress on internationalization (The
>Internationalization ZClasses ...), but I haven't checked that in detail 
>yet as
>the release notes sound very alpha.
>
>I think the Zope framework offers a lot of opportunities for implementing
>internationalization. E.g. one could simply create a ZClass that has 
>properties
>for all required translation strings and checks for a language preference (set
>in the user profile or by a cookie) to return the corresponding string.
>
>Joachim.