2009/2/27 Stephan Richter <srichter@cosmos.phy.tufts.edu>:

On Friday 27 February 2009, Dan Korostelev wrote:

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Also, I it looks crazy how zope.i18n.locales things works, especially when it comes to inheritance. :)

Feel free to improve it. :-)

Well, it's quite hard when it comes to backward-compatibility, but I'll certainly think on some ways to improve.

Instead of implementing inheritance I would now just allow copying a locale and merge new data on top of it. Nobody changes locales on the fly anyways, so the entire inheritance mechanism is superfluous.

Yeah, I also think so. BTW, Babel does that exactly. Also, newer LDML support more complex locale inheritance schemas that will be harder to integrate into current locale mechanism. :-/

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I even have some thoughts about just integrating Babel into zope.i18n, as it does CLDR much better.

Can you give me a link?

Sure. http://babel.edgewall.org/

Looks very good. We probably should switch to them. We can even provide some tests to their project.

I'd support switching to Babel. If noone objects, I'll try to do that in my branch. -- WBR, Dan Korostelev