[Zope3-dev] Re: MessageID's automatic translation in TAL

[Dmitry Vasiliev]

Philipp von Weitershausen wrote:
> Godefroid Chapelle wrote:
> 
>>> Jim, some other people and I argued that this kind of automation is 
>>> bad anyway and instead of introducing more translation magic, TAL 
>>> shouldn't do any automatic translation at all.
>>>
>>> So, in my opinion, do_insertText_tal() should raise a 
>>> DeprecationWarning if it encounters a MessageID/Message object that 
>>> doesn't have an accompanying i18n:translate declaration.
>>>
>>>> Stephan also have pointed that automatic translation doesn't allow 
>>>> somebody to disable translation on purpose for some piece of content.
>>>
>>>
>>> Right. That's one reason why it's bad.
>>
>>
>> Can someone explain this use case a bit deeper ?
> 
> Suppose you don't want to translate messages in a particular template 
> that you want to have translated in others (for example editing vs. 
> displaying a piece of translatable content). Or, suppose you want a 
> particular message id translated in a different language than another 
> one... Or, suppose you're building an app that manages message ids...

But now you just can define another method for the view which does something 
like "return unicode(msgid)".

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