I hope Andrew Milton does not mind, if I put the latest version of his ZBabel Translation System on my page, and I really want to thank him for the great start he gave us; without his work it would have taken much longer!!

ZBabel is a Translation system that helps you to localize your site by providing:

• A DTML-BABEL doublet tag, that allows you to translate big pieces of text. If your text contains DTML tags providing variable content, then ZBabel will recognize them and neglect them in the translation. You can even move their position around in other language versions, if needed.
• A DTML-FISH singelton tag, that translates mostly small pieces of text, variables and localizes data (such as dates & times).
• A "ZBabel Object", which is an object of any type, that contains different language versions (such as images for different languages).
• An Import and Export functionality, so that you can distribute your translations along with your product.

ZBabel provides you with the choice to save the data in SQL or the ZODB. The ZODB ZBabel Tower was especially optimized, using a hash of the source language - usually the label (as it was in previous versions) and a look-up table, similar to indexes.

And as a bonus: Two projects (which are now used on live sites) have been translated using ZBabel. If you want to see it in action yourself, go and Download ZBabel now.