[Zope-dev] my comments on i18n

[Joachim Werner]

Hi!

Just a very short comment:

> As Paul said in the Paris meeting and as Joachim W. has
> stated in a previous mail, one thing we can work on is in
> a common way to get translations from message catalogs, from
> Python code and DTML and ZPT templates.

exactly

> Don't matters where the messages and their translations are
> stored, either in a "ZBabel Tower" or in a "Message Catalog"
> or somewhere else, they would be get in the same way.

yep

> I would propose to do it in a wiki and step by step: first Python
> code, when have finished with it we move to DTML, and finally
> to ZPT.

My priorities are the other way around, but that shouldn't be the problem
...

> The output from this would be an specification for the way to
> get translations from message catalogs in the ZODB.

yep

> My second concrete proposal is about content negotiation, which
> includes language negotiation. There's already a proposal for
> this in the fishbowl:
>
>    http://dev.zope.org/Wikis/DevSite/Proposals/HTTPContentNegotiation
>
> This proposal was made by Andreas Jung and Tino Wildenhain, let's
> move it forward. IMO this should be the first thing to put in the
> core.

We don't have anything sophisticated there. So we are very open to those
things.

Concerning the Wiki: Why not go on using the Wiki Stephane Fermigier has set
up for us?

Joachim