Re: [Nuxeo-localizer] Announcement: HowTo for CMF and Localizer

[Myroslav Opyr]

Juan David Ibáñez Palomar wrote:

> Myroslav Opyr wrote:
>
> > Juan David Ibáñez Palomar wrote:
> >
> > > It will be possible to use Localizer as the back-end for the i18n
> > > namespace of ZPT, Jean-Paul Smets already started to work on this
> > > direction.
> >
> > Ok. Plone + AltPT-i18n uses .po files from file-system 
> > (INSTANCE_HOME/i18n) for l10n. Will Localizer use ZODB-based message 
> > catalog? So it will be interchangable solution! If you can deal with 
> > filesystem you can use AltPT-i18n. In the case you want to have 
> > everything in ZODB you just import .po into Localizer' 
> > MessageCatalog  and make it serve as AltPT i18n namespace handler?
> >
> > Correct me if I'm wrong.
>
> Localizer also uses PO files for Python products, they're stored
> in the "locale" directory. It has been this way for a long time.
> I didn't knew that the Plone folks have taken the same approach.

Not exactly Plone folks. Zope guys are backportin i18n from Zope3 to 
Zope 2 architecture. It is expected to be in Zope 2.7 (or 2.8). Plone is 
being developed with focused approach. They needed i18n in PT. Existing 
PT did not satisfied needs because of poor extensibility of namespaces. 
Thus AltPT project appeared. And AltPT-i18n plugin Product.AltPT are 
slower right now but there's much space for improvements. And AltPT are 
working for Plone right now, that is what was necessary for Plone i18n 
effort to explode. Plone is being translated in tenth languages right now.

> The goal is to let to use Localizer as the back end for the i18n
> ZPT namespace, this includes the MessageCatalog meta type (when
> you develop through the web) and the PO/MO files of the "locale"
> directory (when you develop from the file system).

In Plone there are PT which are file-based and which are in ZODB. All of 
them use the same technique, and .po file from filesystem.

> There's a branch in Localizer (named "branch-zpt-i18n") for these
> purposes. Nothing has been done there yet, but yesterday I added
> Florent Guillaume as developer of the LLEU project, he's interested
> to contribute in this area, as is Jean-Paul Smets and myself. If
> somebody else wants to help just tell me.

Regards,

m.
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