On 04/17/2013 06:45 AM, Todd V Rovito wrote:
On Apr 17, 2013, at 6:47 AM, Olivier Berger
<[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
Hi.
I've filed a wishlist at : http://bugs.python.org/issue17760 about the
potential need for translated UI elements in IDLE. In our case, french
would be an example language.
It was suggested to me to forward the request to this list.
I hope this is not a FAQ (although I'd be surprised to be the first to
raise this need), as I haven't checked the list archives.
I'm sure some may object in the line of
http://bugs.python.org/issue17760#msg187088 but I find it a bit odd to
force this on users... which are free to set their system's locale to
english if they *do* want to force Python beginners to learn english.
FYI, we for example have the oportunity to teach Python to all students
in some classes in France (CPGE), and although they may have also some
honest english curriculum too, I'd expect their computers to have some
french locales, and the discrepency may look a bit surprising to some
(whether or not these english strings only makes Python look more or
less "sexy" is to be determined ;-).
I haven't investigated how IDLE handles UI elements, but could volunteer
for helping on translations to french of any messages in .po or likes,
of course.
I think multi language support is a great idea but I have no idea how
difficult implementation will be. It is great that you have
volunteered to help because we need all the help we can get. I am a
mentor for Google Summer of Code and perhaps I can add multi-language
support as a stretch goal to the project.
http://wiki.python.org/moin/SummerOfCode/2013/python-core
There is a project on Sourceforge that translated IDLE into Turkish, but
I haven't tried it yet: http://sourceforge.net/projects/pyidlelif/
IDLE has a lot of hard-coded phrases scattered throughout the code. It's
perfectly doable to add multi-language support. However, keep in mind
that Tk itself has a problem with non-BMP unicode characters. See
http://bugs.python.org/issue14200 which provided a work-around.
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