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. Looking forward to your opinions, Best regards, -- Olivier BERGER http://www-public.telecom-sudparis.eu/~berger_o/ - OpenPGP-Id: 2048R/5819D7E8 Ingenieur Recherche - Dept INF Institut Mines-Telecom, Telecom SudParis, Evry (France) _______________________________________________ IDLE-dev mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/idle-dev
