[Zope3-dev] Re: translate() default value

[Philipp von Weitershausen]

Dmitry Vasiliev wrote:
> Hi Everyone,
> 
> In the most cases users of the translate() expect untranslated string 
> will be returned if no translation is performed. See for example Issue 
> #298 (http://www.zope.org/Collectors/Zope3-dev/298).
> Is this reasonable to change the translate() to return untranslated 
> string by default instead of None?

I think so. I also don't agree with myself anymore regarding the fixing 
of issue 298; your proposal sounds a lot better.

So, +1 to the change. The question remains what to do on X3.0 branch. 
Changing the semantics of zope.i18n.translate could already jeopardize 
backward compatability between X3.0 and 3.1; such a change between 
X3.0.0 and X3.0.1 could be even be worse...

Thoughts?

Philipp