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Base18 is a Zope product which allows to build multilingual portals. It uses
Localizer and extends the Zope CMFDefault product to provide a way
to translate documents at a sentence per sentence level.

It implements a new kind of CMF document: Translations. Translations allow to
store a .po file which allows to translate a given document. This approach
was inspired by the poxml approach used by the "KDE":http://www.kde.org project
to translate its documentation.

Because it works at the sentence or paragraph level, it is possible to use
the fuzzy feature of gettext to find similar translations for a given sentence
and accelerate the translation process.

Base18 also includes a translation workflow which allows to keep track
of translations and their association to documents in a portal.

Base18 is currently much of a "proof-of-concept" which needs to be extended.
Future versions will include greater flexibility and will implement relations.

More information can be found on the "Nexedi":http://www.nexedi.org/software
site::

    http://www.nexedi.org/software