By Phil Will

Summary: Anyone who has internationalized a large application knows that one of the more time consuming tasks is dealing with third party products which attack internationalization in ways that do not allow languages choices at run time. Even in a pure ABC context, creating multi-language applications is challenging but generally possible, although there is a notable exception in the ABC calendar classes. Phil Will shows how to prepare your code for translation, using the misbehaving calendar classes as an example.

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