On Apr 17, 2013, at 6:47 AM, Olivier Berger <[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
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