[Zope-PTK] Internationalization

[Kevin Dangoor]

Though I can't claim to speak for Paul, I don't think Paul meant that
Internationalization is not important. I'm guessing that he sees
internationalization as a Zope (general) or maybe ZIP (specific) issue that
probably shouldn't take up too much bandwidth on the PTK list at this point.

The PTK sits on top of Zope, much like any other product... the
internationalization effort should probably reach farther down to the core
than that. (Besides, the basic portal features are really vital things to
many people, and important to get up and running pretty quickly.)

Kevin
Kendermedia

----- Original Message -----
From: <technews@egsx.com>
To: "Jochen Haeberle" <listen@midras.de>
Cc: "Paul Everitt" <Paul@digicool.com>; "Zope-PTK" <zope-ptk@zope.org>
Sent: Thursday, January 27, 2000 5:24 PM
Subject: RE: [Zope-PTK] Internationalization


> I agree with Joachen,
>
> The internationalization is extreemly important.  In the next 2-4 years
> there will be more non-english speaker on the net than english ones.  We
> always consider internationalizaton in any product we buy.  I am sad to
> hear that you are not considering this important issue.  It just reminds
> me of the people that decided on ASCII.  They never imagined any other
> language than english will be used with computers.  I ask all of the
> people on Zope-PTK, Zope-dev, and Zope to consider internationlization
> as a major feature of Zope and the Portal toolkit.  The effort spent today
> is a lot smaller compared to trying to look at this issue a year from now,
> and have to re-write tons of unwritten apps.
>
> My two cents..
>
> Adonis
> --
> Adonis El Fakih, Technical Support, www.ayna.com
>
> On Thu, 27 Jan 2000, Jochen Haeberle wrote:
>
> > Hi Paul,
> >
> > At 10:03 Uhr -0500 27.01.2000, Paul Everitt wrote:
> > >Please note that this is the PTK list.  Internationalization for Zope
is
> > >beyond the charter of this effort.
> >
> > sad you see it this way :-( I tried to make my point why from my
> > point of view internationalization _is_ very important for the PTK
> > (and Zope, for sure).
> >
> > Jochen