Re: [Nuxeo-localizer] Re: Translation of QuickStart in Japanese

[Juan David Ibáñez Palomar]

> > I'll add it to the web site. I'll open the Localizer section too, so
> > you will be able to translate it directly. I'll tell you and the
> > mailing list when it's done.
> >    
>
> Thanks. I'm going to start translating other pages and also
> Localizer's po file.
>
>  

Start by the PO files. Localizer 0.9.1 is going to be delayed
few days, if your PO files are ready by then they'll be included.


> Now,  I understand.
>
> I sould better to consider  to use  UTF-8 encoding extensively.
> It's a bit combersome subject, because encoding of pages may affects to
> Zope Splitter and ZCatalog. If I choose UTF-8 for some page, I should
> change whole site to UTF-8 to enable whole site search.
> Maybe it's inevitable to use UTF-8 for i18n site.
>
>  

I think so. I've started to move my desktop from ISO-8859-1
to UTF-8, it's a pleasure to see the japanese characters in
the console, even if I don't understand anything.


> Firstly, I should make a patch for JSplitter, Japanese Splitter, so as
> to handle UTF-8, maybe. Korean and Chinese, ...  users should do
> the same things for their Splitter, maybe.
>
> FYI
> Many of Japanese sites use EUC-JP and Shift_JIS for their page encoding.
> And also  use ISO-2022-JP, mainly for sending e-mails.
> (for example, we should patch MailHost  to send mails  ISO-2022-JP
> encoded  and also subject mime-encoded)
>
> Thus, Japanese should handle a few encodings always.
> It's troublesome, but we should tough through until most of  tools and
> programs should handle UTF-8 and programmers familliar with it, also.
> It takes time, maybe. Anyway, UTF-8 is far better than ASCII encoding.
> Many programs only treat ASCII characters as literal characters.
>
> When I  localize Zope product, first thing to do is grep -i iso-8859 and
> also search such code,  "if ord(c) <= 31 or ord(c) >= 127:" (grin)
> We, double byte character set users,  need 8bit through coding.
>
>  

If you think Localizer can do something else to improve
the situation, don't hesitate to tell me.


> Regards,
> Kazuya Fukamachi
>
>  


Regards,

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J. David Ibanez, http://www.j-david.net
Software Engineer / Ingenieur Logiciel / Ingeniero de Software