Re: [tlug] OT-Japanese in PHP

[Mark Sargent <powderkeg@example.com>]

Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:

>>>>>>"Mark" == Mark Sargent <powderkeg@example.com> writes:
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>
>    >> Is your middle name Sisyphus?
>
>    Mark> I don't understand the reference...was it a positive or a
>    Mark> negative..? positive, I hope!!
>
>Sisyphus was the character the Greek gods punished by having him roll
>a boulder up a hill ... then making him slip, so he had to do it all
>over again.
>
>    Mark> wouldn't even know what I18N is...will look at it later...
>
>INTERNATIONALIZATION     (unless you're Brit-kei, the only Brit who
>X000000000111111111X     can spell is Harry Potter).
>X123456789012345678X
> |_______18_______|
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>    >> It shouldn't be this hard.
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>    Mark> well, it seems that it is...got a solution..?
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>To the PHP problems, no.  PHP is, uh, how do I say it?  "A language
>that Design forgot."  That'll do.
>
>For Japanese, I use Plone/Zope[1].  So far all the Zope products I've
>tried worked with Japanese scripts[2] out of the box for me.  The
>basic Python I18N facilities are very well thought out and fairly easy
>to use correctly, so most Python-based projects do use them.
>
>
>Footnotes: 
>[1]  Admittedly, Plone and Zope can get real crufty.  "Zope Page
>Templates."  "TAL."  "METAL."  <shudder>  But the Pythonistas
>understand language design.
>
>[2]  Ie, I suspect they won't handle era dates and other
>internationalization so well.  But I've taken the coward's way out on
>those: ISO 8601 or RFC 822 dates.  Everybody can read those anyway.
>
>  
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Ok, that's cool!!!..I just was having a bad/long day, and was thinking 
maybe this thread was heading to the "flaming" level...enjoy your 
weekend, the both of you..cheers.

Mark Sargent.