We have a message-catalog module called "acs-lang" for ArsDigita's ACS 4 that will probably be
easy to fold into the OpenACS 4 release. That provides a "get_string" sort of function to look up symbolic messages in a message catalog. You can have message catalogs associated with each package. There;s
also some Tcl utils in there for international date and time and number formatting
and parsing.
I also have some
modifications to the request processor which
makes dealing with multiple character sets in tcl and adp files
a little bit easier. Those will probably get folded into the
OpenACS 4 release at some point soon after it is available.
Then maybe the system will at least work "out of the box" for ISO-LATIN-1, or for any single character set encoding.
