Hi On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 7:18 AM, Sayamindu Dasgupta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > We have had this discussion before: we need to support multiple > languages in a specific order while handling translations, eg: Aymara: > Spanish: English > > I want to get this done for 9.1, and fiddled around with sugar code > for sometime, and got the following screenshot (from Memorize > activity): http://dev.laptop.org/~sayamindu/sugar_multilang.png > (Restart Game is not translated into Aymara, so it shows up in > Spanish as Reiniciar Juego, while the rest is in Aymara) > > With some work, I think I'll be able to come up with a patch which > would enable this for sugar as well as the activities. > > However, there are two questions: > > a) This breaks existing i18n code. This means, activities which call > "from gettext import gettext as _" will not be able to use > translations. Removing that import line would work fine though. Is > that OK ? There's a slightly ugly workaround that works in the initial > tests that I did, but with that, activities with "from gettext import > gettext as _" in the code will support only one non English language > at a time.
Original GNU gettext already has fallback feature. (see http://www.gnu.org/software/gettext/manual/gettext.html#The-LANGUAGE-variable) To me, it seems straightforward to make it happen in Sugar/activities once the fallback mechanism is implemented in Python library. I think the breaking i18n code in apps/sugar you suggested should not be the way to go. Am I missing something? > > b) We would need to change the control panel to support slection of >1 > languages. Eben, do you have any recommendation on how this should be > done ? I have a mockup at > http://dev.laptop.org/~sayamindu/scp_multilang_mockup.png Also Etoys/Squeak has its own gettext implementation. So Etoys needs to understand how current language settings will be exposed to activities. I am assuming GNU gettext way (e.g. setting LANGUAGES to "fr:es") > > Thanks, > Sayamindu > > > -- > Sayamindu Dasgupta > [http://sayamindu.randomink.org/ramblings] > _______________________________________________ > Sugar mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/sugar > _______________________________________________ Sugar mailing list [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/sugar
