[Zope] Newbie: Can Zope do this?

[Tres Seaver]

Jacob Gorm Hansen <jg@ioi.dk> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I need to develop a resource-localization system for an inhouse project.
> 
> I want to be able to maintain a reference object hierachy of English
> texts, and a number of "mirror-hierachies", one for each locale, where
> translations can be entered.
> 
> Something like:
> 
> +English
>         Hello world
>         How are you?
> +German
>         Hello world: Hallo Welt
>         How are you: Wie gehts?
> +French...
> +Japanese....
> 
> >From what I've read so far, it seems I need to develop one or more
> Products (one for the English reference-texts, and one for the
> mirroring?), but I am unsure as to the possibilites of having objects
> mirror one another automatically. I guess I'll also have to use unicode
> or something, in order to support Japanese etc. Does Zope support that?
> 
> Is this possible? How would this best be achieved?
> 

I have a Zope product which might help with this:

  http://www.zope.org/Members/tseaver/ZI18N

The theory behind it is that each ZI18N_Document contains one or more
"locale-specific" subdocuments, and selects one of them to render based on:

  1. a cookie representing the user's locale choice

  2. the browser-configured HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE

  3. an acquired "default" locale

You might also subscribe/browse the Zope Internationalization Project mailing
list, at:

  http://www.eevolute.com/mailman/listinfo/zip

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