I'm currently working on a heavily internationalized website written in Python 3[1] and as such I've had opportunity to work with a few ways of internationalizi

I'm currently working on a heavily internationalized website written in Python 3[1] and as such I've had opportunity to work with a few ways of internationalizing content. My thoughts: 1. Internationalization is, as far as I know, an unsolved problem. This solution doesn't stand out as obviously better than the alternatives. Unsolved problems don't belong at the language level. I'd rather wait until a real solution to this problem is discovered. 2. What happened to explicit is better than implicit? Isn't that a core value of Python? Overriding implementations of builtin functions is all too magical, allowing spooky action at a distance. I'm extremely skeptical of solutions that don't allow me to grep my code for where a function is implemented. `gettext`, at least is clearly calling a function. [1] http://globalcitizen.org http://globalcitizen.org