[Zope-dev] Internationalization?

[Andreas Kostyrka]

On Sun, 25 Jul 1999, [iso-8859-1] ÀÌ°ü¼ö wrote:

> Andreas Kostyrka wrote:
> 
> > Hi!
> > 
> > I've been wondering if anyone is working on internationalizing ZOPE?
> > 
> > Andreas
> 
> Since nobody replied during 24 hours, I write in Seoul, KOREA. 
> 
> There is ZIP -- Zope Internationalization Project.
> 
> So far internationalization/localization acquired 3 meanings.
>   a.. Right: (quasi-)automatic multilingual rendering of an Zope object.
>   b.. Center: internationalization/localization of date, currency etc format.
>   c.. Left: internationalization/localization of Zope management screen & various messages by Zope.
> Most posters seems rightest except Brian Hooper (of Digital Garage, Tokyo, JAPAN). I guess him a Leftist (and most of quiet CJK people may be leftists. I saw some Chineses' postings in Zope main list).
> 
> As for your question, I was working but not right now. I experimented did during last winter with Zope 1.9, and my findings are
>   a.. One can fulling convert any messages & strings(which would appear in the browser screen) in *.py & *.dtml files without any serious difficulty
>   b.. Zope's basic authentification works with non-ASCII characters if you use MS IE (I reported Netscape Navigator's failure to meet my expectation as *bug* to Netscape then but not checked newer Navigators).
> From my experience, one full person-week is enough to internationalize/localize Zope source tree's *.py & *.dtml files along the leftist approach.
> 
> The main difficulty was and is that Zope is so vast and so quickly evolving to keep a localized version upto date. 
> 
> There are some more fine details & issues I might be able to share if anyone needs them. Anyway ZinK (= Zope in Korean) will see the light before the end of coming winter(I'm writng my disseration in this year and its history. I envy an guy in ZDP who did his graduate work with Zope) unless DC poeple muliply Zope code base several times.
So where is the ZOPE i8n website, mailing list, etc.?

Andreas
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