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

[Dmitry Vasiliev]

Philipp von Weitershausen wrote:
> 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?

The simplest solution is to change all translate(text) calls to translate(text, 
default=text). I think we need to do it for 3.1 also.

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