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

[Yoshiki Ohshima]

  Hello,

> > 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?

  And I'm not sure what would be the up-side if we prevent people from
having such strings in source code.  It is kind of unrealistic to
expect that every Seaside designer writes functions to translate their
web site.

-- Yoshiki