Ian Landsman is Starting From Scratch, December 7, 2005:

i18n in TurboGears

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Looks like Kevin and his 600+ helpers are making good progress on TurboGears. The linked post talks about new i18n internationalization capabilities being baked into TurboGears. This is one area where PHP just stinks. I mean it's really bad. Sure you "can" internationalize your PHP app, but it's not easy. Heck there isn't even any real documentation on how, it's all in bits and pieces. An article on one aspect here, a function document there, a user contributed note someplace else. I really hope the Zend Framework everyone is talking about addresses some of this, though I think the issues are really more in the core of PHP and won't be so easily worked around.

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To be honest, I've had only a little bit of involvement in any i18n efforts, so this feature has definitely been driven by others on the project. And, I'm very thankful they did, because I know how important it is for many apps!

Quite a few languages still seem to suffer from really weak unicode support, so I wonder if that's the point at which people just throw up their hands in despair. Python's got decent unicode support, but it can still pop up and bite you if you've got unicode characters and accidentally try to transform them to ascii-7.
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Created by Kevin Dangoor on 12.07.2005 2:12 pm

 

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