Internationalization on the way
June 13th, 2005 at 11:18 am (2 years, 11 months ago) by bkirsch under Chandler Desktop DevelopmentOne of the major lessons we have learned from other software projects is: design your product from the beginning to be localizable. Many projects that failed to consider Internationalization concerns in the architecture discovered just how hard it is to bolt on at a later date.
In the next few days I will be publshing the second version of the Chandler Internationalization Proposal. To give you a sneak peak, Chandler will be leveraging IBM’s ICU library and porting it to Python via Swig wrappers and will be adding new types to the Repository to support Localization of Unicode text. We will also be writting a custom version of pygettext.py that lets developers use the gettext .po format that is industry standard in the Open Source community while leveraging the Repository for the storage of translatable content.
Stay tuned!
