[Zope3-dev] Re: Use case not covered for translation of message ids

[Jim Fulton]

Godefroid Chapelle wrote:
> Stephan Richter wrote:
> 
> <snip>
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> 
>> So in other applications making something a message id translates 
>> immediately. Maybe this is the reason it feels so natural for 
>> Godefroid and Martijn to think about automatic translation. I like 
>> Zope 3's idiom though, which separates the declaration of something 
>> being translatable and actually translating something.
> 
> 
> I am all for this separation, I am just pleading for no need of explicit 
> use of i18n:translate when the engine actually decides to translate !

You keep pleading, but you don't give any reason why you need this.
I, OTOH, have given a specific reason why this would be harmful.

Jim


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