[EuroPython] i18n and realted issues

[Anna Ravenscroft]

I think that'll be a great topic for an open space session on the last
day. I'm sure you'll have lots of folks interested in discussing it
with you.

Thanks for bringing it up.

cordially,
Anna

--- Magnus Lyckå <magnus@thinkware.se> wrote:
> At 07:20 2003-04-30 +0200, Martin v. Löwis wrote:
> >This is surely all off-topic for the EuroPython list, I'm also
> unsure
> >what your messages aim at. Do you say such things to point out
> >perceived bugs in Python, or to learn more about locales, or for
> some
> >other reason?
> 
> Right. This became all too technical. Sorry. But the "percieved" bugs
> are real. The locale module does not work as specified in the library
> reference on Microsoft Windows 2000 or XP.
> 
> I wanted to bring the general issue of i18n and l16n up with the PBF,
> since
> I think it's very relevant for Python use in business, but gets all
> too
> little attention in python documentation, official as well as printed
> books
> etc. I suspect you agree, since you seem to have been a python i18n
> champion
> for years (six years at least).
> 
> I used the (on Windows) buggy locale module, and the lack of
> documentation
> around this, to illustrate the problem. In general, it's easy to work
> with
> Python, at least we tend to claim that, and our library reference and
> books
> are very helpful, but here it fails.
> 
> I also felt that Europython ought to be an event where other people
> who
> are interested in this issue will appear.
> 
> In general I hope we will find time to not only listen to prepared
> speeches
> at Europython, but also discuss issues that we feel need improvement,
> and
> to come up with solutions for that--in a PBF context or in some other
> way.
> 
> 
> 
> --
> Magnus Lycka (It's really Lyck&aring;), magnus@thinkware.se
> Thinkware AB, Sweden, www.thinkware.se
> I code Python ~ The shortest path from thought to working program 
> 
> 
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