[Zope-PTK] Internationalization

Paul Everitt Paul@digicool.com
Thu, 27 Jan 2000 10:03:24 -0500


Please note that this is the PTK list.  Internationalization for Zope is
beyond the charter of this effort.

--Paul

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Lalo Martins [mailto:lalo@webcom.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, January 26, 2000 11:38 AM
> To: Zope-PTK
> Subject: Re: [Zope-PTK] Internationalization
> 
> 
> On Wed, Jan 26, 2000 at 04:49:32PM +0100, Jochen Haeberle wrote:
> > 
> > Yes, if you need it, for sure! But Zope has great ways of separating
> > content from code and design, so internationalization fits in very
> > good, I guess.
> > Let's face it, not everyone needs this, so I guess a way to 
> leave the
> > standard way of doing pages with dtml and switch to language support
> > later would be it. This way you could build your logic in one
> > language and keep all the structural, important text in the 
> dtmls and
> > add internationailzation later on, when the logic works. And all the
> > sites doing only one language won't be bothered.
> 
> Actually, the first part of the problem - that must be dealt
> with ASAP - is the Catalog.
> 
> Currently you may write your content in whatever language you
> wish. But not if you use the Catalog; it cannot search text in
> languages that use single-byte, >127 characters, or multi-byte.
> The ``voodoo kludge'' splitter seems to somehow fix multi-byte
> but not single-byte, so you Germans and we Brazilians are still
> lost.
> 
> []s,
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