Hi. I've been using Zope on internal projects for a while now. The application requirements include running in Japanese and English depending on the user's browser or language preference setting. Brian mentions EUC and SJIS issues which I hadn't paid much attention to until it bit me when I went to implement a document filing system using PostgreSQL which apparently only handles EUC. I ended up having to set all of my pages character sets to EUC which is a major headache because our Oracle server uses SJIS (which can be set using NLS_LANG). I now have a whole bunch of content that I have to convert to EUC. My advice: follow Brian's advice. I would be very interested in patches and whatever. Also, it was discussed on the list a while back but I haven't heard anything since. Has anyone done anything for multilingual sites? I've been thinking a lot about some sort of system for automatic content selection based on language but have yet to come up with anything coherent. What I am using now is DTML Documents with DTML that looks up appropriate strings stored in the properties as lists. It feels like a kludge but I think that's just because the usage is reverse that of normal--main content goes in the properties with only a lookup script in the Document. It works well because a most of the content is generated from databases that have multilingual content. It also presents a nice way to manage the strings and assures that all of my buttons, captions, etc. all use the same wording. It only works for one-line strings but I figure that larger blocks of pure content are better stored in their own DTMLDocuments anyway. BTW. I had to add 'jst':'Japan' to _zmap in DateTime.py to get date things to work. I think you can check this by: $ python Python 1.5.1 (#1, Sep 3 1998, 22:51:17) [GCC 2.7.2.3] on linux-i386 Copyright 1991-1995 Stichting Mathematisch Centrum, Amsterdam

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-John (cronic lurkaholic)

-----Original Message----- From: Brian Hooper [SMTP:brian@garage.co.jp] Sent: Wednesday, August 11, 1999 12:36 PM To: Itai Tavor Cc: zope@zope.org Subject: Re: [Zope] Zope and Japanese (was [Zope] Confera FAQ?)

Hi Itai!

This is Brian Hooper at Digital Garage. I worked on SonicNet Japan with Jay.

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I'm about to start work on some Japanese sites. Can you tell me if you ran into any problems mixing Zope and Japanese?

Not really - there are a few small issues with character encoding.

You should use EUC for everything, if possible; Python doesn't work properly with Shift-JIS without patching and rebuilding Python (these patches are not official, I think someone contributed patches to make Python safe with SJIS).

I think depending on your machine and OS environment you may have to add a timezone mapping or two to DateTime.py, also. And in order to send out 7-bit JIS mail using MailHost, that has to be patched as well. If you're interested, maybe we could share patches :-) .

--Brian

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