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Revision as of 22:08, 14 June 2011
The problem
We use logical keys for our translations for historical reasons (years ago when our tools were written in TCL that's how you did it, and Zope allows for the option).
Logical keys aren't bad on their own... the problem is that in general the rest of the world doesn't seem to use them. Thusly we've had to write our own tools to move our translation files around, sync things, etc; these tools require a lot of specialized knowledge to maintain and tend to be fairly fragile. It would be significantly easier on ourselves if we could just move away from them.
To do that, we need to move from logical to english keys. Given the complexity of our existing system this won't be easy... one attempt at moving was made before and was later given up on. Here's to success on the second try! A relevant plan is laid out below.
