[Seaside] Re: no HTML entities for 8bit characters in UTF-8 encoding

Avi Bryant avi at beta4.com
Sat Jun 26 05:44:16 CEST 2004


On Jun 25, 2004, at 6:58 PM, Colin Putney wrote:

> Well, no. That's the opposite of what I suggested above.
>
> Frankly I think that's too much flexibility. The whole idea of what I 
> proposed above is *not* to have strings in the source code. If every 
> user-visible string is a message to a single localization object, it's 
> an easy bottleneck for translators to intercept, but still flexible 
> enough to handle the vagaries of diverse languages.

I'm not sure it's realistic to try to actually prevent people from 
having user visible strings in the source code.  Better to make it easy 
for them to migrate from hardcoded strings to localized ones, no?

Avi



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