hi! thanks a lot for all the feedback on my suggested ZIP (zope int'l project). from what i can see now there are two different needs: 1. contents depending on client's wishes (e.g. client requests interface in his native language). this requires heavy changes in the zope code to evaluate HTTP_ACCEPT_CHARSET/LANGUAGE etc. 2. contents depending on server: you could set a Language property on a folder and make its contents behave in e.g. a german way (DateTime object will be output in a german format, thousands will be separated by "." and decimals by "," and <!--#var money fmt=whole-dollars--> will not output "$123" but "123,- DM" or something). the second suggestion seems to be a lot easier to implement and i guess this is where we should begin. my python-1.5.2 has a "locale" module compiled in and therefore a lot of information about date/currency formats can be handled with this module. i could set up a separate mailing list on our server but i still need a couple of people to discuss how to implement this language switch. cheers thilo