On Thu, 18 Jun 2009, Mike Major wrote: > i'm struggling right now with how to display some text on the screen > with some graphics. the easiest way would be to just include it in the > svg graphics. [1] > > however, then i started thinking of internationization (i18n). if the > text is in the graphics, it would not be translatable. > > the questions here is: should i be concerned about i18n? i know this is > a open source project and you never know where it might end up. i guess > i'm looking for some input and other people's thoughts. > > -are people planning for i18n? > -do we expect that the activities will end up outside of the us? or even > in the us and used for teaching non-native english speakers? > > i guess i'm looking for a get-out-of-jail-free card and wondering if > anyone has one. > > [1] = we're planning on several screens with a graphic and some text to > go with it. there will be some "back" and "forward" buttons for > navigation. i'm trying to find a clean and elegant way of holding the > information for the screen information; something like a C-struct i > think but i'm not sure yet. > > thanks for the input, > mike
If it comes down to a choice between "is it pretty" or "is it easily localizable" then I would choose "is it easily localizable" as often as possible. Everything is a choice, of course. --g -- Computer Science professors should be teaching open source. Help make it happen. Visit http://teachingopensource.org. _______________________________________________ FourthGradeMath mailing list [email protected] http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/fourthgrademath
