[Zope-dev] Making Zope international

[Brian Hooper]

I'm interested a lot in this topic too - I think that if we could
agree on a feasible and sensible approach, then a lot of the
infrastructure could be shared and reused for any language that anyone
cared to provide support for... maybe a way of tie-ing mapping
dictionaries to arbitrary objects, and then some conventions for naming
the various messages... if we decided on the right implementation then
automatic content negotiation could be easy to implement, too!

(I am personally interested in Japanese...)

A combination of server settings (environment variables, maybe a Control
Panel widget or Locale object) and the desired HTTP_ACCEPT_CHARSET could
be used to decide what language to use.  I'm not sure what the cleanest
way to do this would be... there are a *lot* of english string literals
everywhere in the code right now, so internationalisation would involve
at the very least adding one extra level of indirection everywhere those
string literals are being used... but I think this could be really good
in the long run.

Anyways, I'm pretty interested in the ZIP too, if it starts up!

--Brian

Martijn Faassen <faassen@vet.uu.nl> wrote:

> Thilo Mezger wrote:
> [snip internationalisation problems with money and time]
> 
> I'd like to add translation to this; it'd be nice if there was a
> facility in Zope to get the same text in multiple languages in a
> consistent way. I imagine using acquisition could be of service here.
> For instance:
> 
> http://localhost/foo
> 
> Displays 'foo' in the default language.
> 
> http://localhost/English/foo
> 
> Tries to display 'foo' in English, if possible, otherwise displays
> 'sorry, can't translate'.
> 
> http://localhost/Nederlands/foo
> 
> Tries to display 'foo' in Dutch, if possible, otherwise displays 'sorry,
> kan niet vertalen'.
> 
> Is this feasible? You'd need some consistent way to store HTML in more
> than a single language; perhaps a MultiLingualDTMLDocument, or something
> like that?
> 
> > therefore, i'd like to suggest the creating of ZIP - the
> > 
> >         ZOPE INTERNATIONALIZATION PROJECT
> 
> Cool! :) I'm interested, though I don't know how much input I can give
> given lack of time. I'll join any mailing list on this that's opened,
> though.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Martijn
> 
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