[Zip] l10n beyond presentation

[Luistxo Fernandez]

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>So my question still remains: Are there Use Cases where you would need Loca=
lization/Internationalization anywhere else other than in your presentation?

any multilingual website needs to address the issue of localized content, I =
believe.

Take, http://www.bol.de and http://www.bol.fr
The presentation is localised. Content also, of course. It=B4s a german=
 catalog of books that you find in bol.de and a french one in bol.fr

Very probably issues pertaining to logic are also localized. If you order a=
 book in Germany or France, maybe due to legal, logistical or whatever=
 reason, your order needs to be processed in a certain way through bol.de=
 and another process is needed in bol.fr

Much simpler websites also face this issue. In bilingual websites that we=
 are constructing, in Basque and Spanish, for instance, queries that are=
 sent to zCatalog must be differently pre-processed if the search is=
 performed from the Basque pages, cause we speak an agglutinating=
 post-positional which implies that... [a treaty of grammar ommited]

Besides, i don=B4t know where=B4s the exact boundary between l10n of=
 presentation strings and logic issues... Localized date formats, for=
 instance, are there, in the boundary.

Luistxo

PD. Are the DC people already present at this list? I was not at Berlin but=
 Gari tells me that Michael Pelletier was interested in the i18n/l10n issue,=
 and that they were going to take part in the revival of the ZIP list.