Thilo Mezger wrote: [snip internationalisation problems with money and time]
I'd like to add translation to this; it'd be nice if there was a facility in Zope to get the same text in multiple languages in a consistent way. I imagine using acquisition could be of service here. For instance:
Displays 'foo' in the default language.
Tries to display 'foo' in English, if possible, otherwise displays 'sorry, can't translate'.
http://localhost/Nederlands/foo
Tries to display 'foo' in Dutch, if possible, otherwise displays 'sorry, kan niet vertalen'.
Is this feasible? You'd need some consistent way to store HTML in more than a single language; perhaps a MultiLingualDTMLDocument, or something like that?
I like this idea. Perhaps the text sections of the MultiLingulaDTMLdocument could be inserted by a tag like <!--#var nl|us|de|etc. text-->. This way we would not only have separation of code, but also be able to add a new language in a simple way.
therefore, i'd like to suggest the creating of ZIP - the
ZOPE INTERNATIONALIZATION PROJECT
Cool! :) I'm interested, though I don't know how much input I can give given lack of time. I'll join any mailing list on this that's opened, though.
Same for me. Rik Hoekstra