first cut at merging discussion and comments

particularly:
jupyter#10 (comment)

work in progress.

jupyter-notebook-gui-translation/jupyter-notebook-gui-translation.md

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 ## Problem
 
-There is currently no standard approach for translating the GUI of Jupyter notebook. This has driven some people to do a [single language translation for Jupyter 4.1](https://twitter.com/Mbussonn/status/685870031247400960).
+There is currently no standard approach for translating the GUI of Jupyter notebook.
+This has driven some people to do a
+[single language translation for Jupyter 4.1](https://twitter.com/Mbussonn/status/685870031247400960).
 
 For information: previous attempts and related issues:
 
-- ipython/ipython#6718
-- ipython/ipython#5922
-- jupyter/notebook#870
+- https://github.com/ipython/ipython/issues/6718
+- https://github.com/ipython/ipython/pull/5922
+- https://github.com/jupyter/notebook/issues/870
 
 ## Proposed Enhancement
 
-Use Tornado [translation capabilities](http://www.tornadoweb.org/en/stable/locale.html) to translate the GUI's templates. This will cover translating the words and sentences in the GUI and localized styles (like Right to left languages).
+For Python or Jinja2: use [Jinja2 with Babel](http://jinja.pocoo.org/docs/dev/extensions/#i18n-extension) 
+to create `.pot` -> Translators translate -> create `.po` -> compile and create `.mo` from `.po` ( probably at install time ).
+Python or Jinja2 consumes the .mo directly.
+
+For JavaScript (client side), use Babel ( [pybabel extract](http://babel.pocoo.org/en/latest/cmdline.html?highlight=extract) ) to create 
+.pot -> Translators translate -> create .po -> Create JSON as text from .po by 
+[iterating over the catalog](http://babel.pocoo.org/en/latest/api/messages/catalog.html#catalogs)
+and then [export to JSON](https://docs.python.org/2/library/json.html).
+From there, [jQuery Globalize](https://github.com/jquery/globalize/blob/master/doc/api/message/load-messages.md)
+can read and process the message catalog.
 
 ## Detail Explanation