[Zope3-dev] i18n, unicode, and the underline

[Stephan Richter]

On Thursday 10 April 2003 17:58, Barry Warsaw wrote:
> Summary: for 7-bit us-ascii, sure go ahead.  For anything else, use
> _(u'Name').  We have to change _() though.

Barry is completely right with this! After a long discussion we decided to 
have all human interface strings as unicode. Also The _() is needed for 
translations; if Barry figures out how to do it without this, fine, if not 
they need to stay too.

If Barry and I would have enough authority as I18n shepherds, I would veto 
this proposal (but I think Jim agrees with us, so he could make a Papal's 
Edict here too ;-). 

BTW, for each feature you pay a price of complexity and for I18n it is this, 
which is mild in my opinion. Star Office for example creates for each 
translatable string an array!

Regards,
Stephan
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